Q&A with Paolo Buss, Director of the Center for Global Health at FIOCRUZ, Brazil.
Q: How can Brazil and Cuba export your knowledge to African countries?
A: The impressive technological development in Cuba came because of a strong political will. This teaches us that high-level political decisions are key. Market forces drive interests in the marketplace, but […]
“Forum 2009 was a landmark event bringing together over 900 participants from 80 countries to learn about ‘Innovating for the health of all’. Cuba proved to be the ideal setting for such a meeting, a country that has used innovation to deliver first world health indicators on a low budget”. (Professor Anthony Mbewu, Executive Director of the Global Forum for Health Research)
The final report has just been published in English and Spanish.
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The WHO is planning a revolution – in health systems research. In a satellite meeting yesterday, along with the Global Forum for Health Research, the organisation introduced its plans for a global symposium on health systems research next November in Montreux, Switzerland. The initiative follows up from the Bamako Call to Action on research for […]
Read..Daily report Friday 20 November 2009
The first of the final day’s plenary sessions looked at removing barriers for inter-sectoral collaboration. Melinda Moree, at BIO Ventures for Global Health, USA, offered a useful analogy by talking about the inter-departmental dialogue necessary to run a pharma company. The financial imperative means that the R&D department must communicate […]
Plenary session Thursday 19 November
Chair: Judith Whitworth, WHO Global Advisory Committee on Health Research
Laurie Garrett, author and journalist, led off Thursday’s plenary session with a discussion of the need for increased investment in capacity building, particularly the training of health care workers. Global health programs lack an exit strategy as all are building with no […]
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Chair: Fiona Godlee, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ, UK
Moderator: Kumanan Rasanathan, Technical Officer, Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, WHO
Presenters: Sarah Walpole, Climate and Health Council, UK; Jaime Teran-Reyes, Instituto Nicaraguense de Seguros y Reaseguros (INISER), Nicaragua; Dziedzom K. de Souza
, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana; Gilma Mantilla, International Research Institute for Climate […]