RV: [EQ] 1st Latin American Conference on Research and Innovation for Health

 

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De: Equity, Health & Human Development [mailto:EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG] En nombre de Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
Enviado el: miércoles, 09 de abril de 2008 17:05
Para: EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG
Asunto: [EQ] 1st Latin American Conference on Research and Innovation for Health

1st Latin American Conference on Research and Innovation for Health

 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  15-18 April 2008  

 

Hosted by the Ministry of Health of Brazil (Department of Science and Technology); jointly organized with the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), the Global Forum for Health Research, INSalud Mexico, the NicaSalud Network Federation, and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO)

 

Website: http://www.cohred.org/main/healthresearchlatinamerica.php#who

 

Objectives

- Bring together countries in Latin America to discuss successes and challenges in research for health and the development of their national health research systems;
- Strengthen the links between the health research and the science, technology and innovation
sectors;
- Define strategies and actions for future cooperation within Latin America;
- Stimulate the formation of partnerships that will facilitate addressing health equity and development through research;
- Increase the interest in external research sponsors in supporting this process.

 Outcomes and outputs

- Research System Development: Recognition by key national partners (ministries, research institutes, NGOs) of the need to develop their national health research systems, based on effective health research policies, processes and practices.

- Strategies: Development of a set of strategies for action at national, regional and global levels to advance research for health in the region.

- Authoritative report: A conference report that can be used by Latin American ministers and other partners to prepare a Latin American input for the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health (Bamako, Mali, November 2008)

 

Documents for working groups/ Documentos para el trabajo de grupos: National health research systems/ Sistemas nacionales de investigación en salud Financing for research for health/ Financiamiento de la investigación para la salud Human resources for health research/ Recursos humanos para la investigación en salud Innovation, product development and access/ Innovación, desarrollo y acceso de productos       Country papers/ Documentos países: Argentina Brasil Chile Costa Rica Cuba Honduras Panama Paraguay Venezuela       Record Paper 6 Health research systems development in Latin America   Documento de Registro 6 Apoyando el desarrollo de sistemas de investigación en salud en Latinoamérica     Programme Tuesday 15 April 19.30: Official Opening: - Carel IJsselmuiden, Director, COHRED - Mirta Roses, Director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) - José Gomes Temporão, Minister of Health, Brazil   Wednesday 16 April    9.00 – 10.30: Opening plenary:   Chair: Suzanne Jacob Serruya, Director, Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Health, Brazil     Towards strengthening National Health Research Systems in the region, Francisco Becerra,  Senior Advisor, COHRED, Latin America  Global panorama of research for health, Stephen Matlin, Executive Director,  Global Forum for Health Research  Health research in the Latin American region, Luis Gabriel Cuervo, Team Leader, Research, Promotion  and   Development,  Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)  Innovation and research for health, Reinaldo Felippe Nery Guimarães, Secretary of Science, Technology and Strategic Inputs, Ministry of Health, Brazil   11.00 – 12.15: Plenary: Case studies on conference themes:   Chair: John Lavis, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, McMaster University, Canada        National Health Research Systems:      - Case study from Mexico, Rodolfo Cano, Director for Health Research, Ministry of Health, Mexico      - Case study from Argentina, Zulma Ortiz, Chief, Training and Research,        Epidemiological Research Institute, National Academy of Medicine, Argentina     Financing for research for health:      - The case of sectoral funds in Chile, Marisol Navarrete Couble, Executive Director, FONIS, Chile    Human resources for health research:     - Case study from Nicaragua, Josefina Bonilla, Director, NicaSalud Network Federation, Nicaragua    Innovation, product development and access:     - Case study from Brazil: Innovation and neglected diseases, challenges and opportunities,       Carlos Morel, Director, Centre for Technological Development in Health, Fiocruz, Brazil     12.15-12:30 Introduction to working groups:        Process and expected outcomes, questions and clarification,     Analía Porras, Research, Promotion and Development, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)      14.00 – 17:30: Working groups         Thursday 17 April            9.00 – 9.45: Plenary: Technical Cooperation I   Chair: Jose Luis Di Fabio, Area Manager, Technology, Health Care and Research, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)           - Luis Tacsan, Director, Department of Research and Technological Development for Health,        Ministry of Health, Costa Rica.      - Isabel Noguer, Subdirectorate of International Research Programmes and Institutional        Partnerships, Carlos III Health Institute, Spain      - Donald Simeon, Director, Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC), Trinidad & Tobago      - Christina Zarowsky, Team Leader, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada          9.45 – 10.30: Plenary: Technical cooperation II                  Chair: Stephen Matlin, Executive Director, Global Forum for Health Research         - Rodolfo Barrere, Technical Team Member, Network on Science and Technology Indicators         (RICYT), Argentina      - Annick Manuel, Regional Coordinator for Health and Health Research for Southern        Cone and Brazil, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile      - Shing Chang, R&D Director, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiatives (DNDi), Switzerland      - Jimmy Withworth, Head, International Activities, Wellcome Trust, UK         11.00 – 17.30: Working groups   Friday 18 April         9.00-10.30: Plenary: Report back from working groups:        Chair: Moisés Goldbaum, Professor, Preventive Medicine Department, University of São Paulo, Brazil         - National Health Research Systems (by Zulma Ortiz, moderator)      - Financing for Research for Health (by Fernando de la Hoz, moderator)      - Human Resources for Health Research (by Ernesto Medina, moderator)      - Innovation, Product Development and Access (by Rodrigo Salinas, moderator)     11.00 – 12.30: Plenary: Discussion on report back from working groups        Chair: Moisés Goldbaum, Professor, Preventive Medicine Department, University of São Paulo, Brazil        12.30 – 13.15: Closing Plenary: Synthesis and Way Forward                              Panel with all organising partners    Chairs: Suzanne Serruya, Director, Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Health, Brazil;                Carel IJsselmuiden, Director, COHRED        *      *      *     * This message from the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO, is part of an effort to disseminate information Related to: Equity; Health inequality; Socioeconomic inequality in health; Socioeconomic health differentials; Gender; Violence; Poverty; Health Economics; Health Legislation; Ethnicity; Ethics; Information Technology - 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