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* id21 health: Communicating Development Research (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
id21 health contains a selection of the latest and best
UK-based development research. It includes links to full text
articles on: non-communicable diseases, infectious diseases,
HIV/AIDS, sexual health, family planning, maternal health,
child health, and environmental health, health economics and
financing, and health systems and policy.
http://www.id21.org/health/
African Networks for Health Research and Development (AFRONETS) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site links to more than 20 African health research
sites, and contains instructions on how to subscribe to the
email discussion list, AFRO-NETS. The site is sponsored by
SatelLife.
http://www.afronets.org/
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Alliance is an international collaboration based in the Health Systems and Services Cluster in the World Health Organization (WHO). It promotes health policy and systems research to improve the health systems of developing countries. The site contains a link to the
2007 WHO Biennial Review that deals with ‘enhancing capacity for evidence-informed health policy’.
http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/resources/Alliance_BR.pdf
Build AfReCa!
Build Africa Research Capacity is 'an international community of young scientists supporting the advancement of biomedical scientists in Africa and its developing diaspora. Via a Google discussion group, interested individuals can read and post messages. If interested in joining, send an email to
build-afreca@googlegroups.com to register.
http://groups.google.com/group/build-afreca
Building Partnerships for Research in Global Health (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Aimed at reducing the 10/90 discrepancy in health research,
this toolkit has developed a set of actions to foster
collaborative research and partnerships. It also contains a
survey of global factors that have an impact on health
systems and populations. Published in 2005, it was produced
by the Task Group on Building Partnerships, Canadian
Coalition for Global Health Research.
http://www.ccghr.ca/docs/toolkit/050045_global%20health-eng.pdf
Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
COHRED is a Switzerland based non-governmental organization that promotes the use of health research for health, health equity and development in low-income countries. The site contains information on the organization’s goals and projects. The COHRED Site Map includes links to resources such as Health Research Web and the Health Research Watch.
http://www.cohred.org/
Designing and Conducting Health Systems Research Projects (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This e-book is structured as a course, with 33 modules in two
volumes. Volume 1 describes proposal development and field
testing; Volume 2 looks at data analysis and report writing.
The course was developed by the International Development
Research Centre, Canada
http://www.idrc.ca/panasia/ev-33013-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Equator Network (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Launched in the fall of 2007, the ‘Enhancing the
Quality and Transparency of Health Research’ Network is
an initiative that seeks to improve the quality of scientific
publications by promoting transparent and accurate reporting
of health research. The site contains a resource centre for
authors, journal editors and peer reviewers and reporting
guideline developers plus, from early 2008, educational
material and training modules for these groups. The Network
is an international group of experts on health research
methodology, statistics and reporting.
http://www.equator-network.org/
Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French)
This site contains several full-text publications on health,
reproductive healthcare and family planning, in English and
French. The Foundation has a focus on Francophone regions,
and developing and transitional countries.
http://www.gfmer.ch/000_Homepage_En.htm
Global Forum for Health Research (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Global Forum focuses on the health problems of the poor.
It aims to improve the allocation of research funds and
facilitates collaboration among partners, both in the public
and private sectors. The site includes the "10/90 Report" (an
estimated 10% of global biomedical research funds are used
for research into 90% of the world's health problems), the
Annual Forum on Health Research, and Communicating Health
Research. It has a substantial links page of organizations
with an interest in health research and communication.
http://www.globalforumhealth.org/
Health Research Systems Analysis (HRSA) Toolkit (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This initiative is a WHO coordinated project to
develop concepts and tools to describe, analyze, and
benchmark national health research systems for individuals,
institutions, and policy makers. This information will allow
institutions and countries to describe and analyze health
research system activities in a comparable way and over time
or across countries. This website provides access to a set of
tools and allows users to adapt these tools accordingly.
http://www.tropika.net/svc/specials/hrsa-toolkit/pages/background
HR4D-net (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
HR4D-net was launched 22 May 2006. Hosted by INASP, supported by the Global Forum for Health Research and INASP, and moderated by Robert Walgate. HR4D aims to bring people together to share ideas and debate on ways to communicate, improve and utilise health research. The list particularly aims to engage researchers, policy makers and health professionals in developing and transitional countries. To join the list send an email including your name, organisation, country, and brief description of professional interests to hr4d-net@dgroups.org
http://dgroups.org/Community.aspx?c=74761344-a1cc-4b5a-ad08-d5126a480b62
Intute: Health and Life Sciences (formerly BIOME/OMNI)
BIOME provides access to quality Internet resources in the
fields of agriculture, food, forestry, pharmaceutical
sciences, medicine, nursing, dentistry, biological research,
veterinary sciences, the natural world, botany, zoology, and
more. Its five subject gateways are cross-searchable and
cross-browsable. The service is coordinated by the University
of Nottingham (UK), together with a formidable range of high
profile partners and content providers from the UK health and
life science sectors. The health sciences section is called
OMNI (see below).
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Knowledge Translation Toolkit – A Resource for Researchers
This site deals with all facets of knowledge translation which is the meeting ground between the research and action/implementation processes. Via the table of contents, each facet of this process is downloadable as a PDF file. For some of the functions, registration is required but is free. The toolkit was developed by TropIKA.net, a service of TDR for Research on Diseases of Poverty.
http://www.tropika.net/svc/specials/KT-Toolkit/pages/KT-Toolkit
Medical Research Council of South Africa (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The South Africa MRC site includes information about the
organization's structure and activities including
conferences, research, funding information,
interorganizational collaboration and press releases.
http://www.mrc.ac.za/home.htm
National Health Research (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Sponsored by the Council on Health Research for Development
(Switzerland), this series highlights key issues in managing
health research in developing countries. It offers fulltext
access to a synthesis of analysis, substantive reports and
publications. The most recent publication is titled "What
factors influence health research agendas in developing
countries".
http://www.cohred.org/framework-guides-system-strengthening
SciCentral.com: Health Sciences Research News
SciCentral contains summaries of current research news with
links to fulltext articles. It includes feature articles and
more than 40 'specialty gateway' sections . It also contains
links to conferences, journals, databases, jobs and products.
http://www.scicentral.com/H-02heal.html
SciDev.Netealth (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The aim of the Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
is to provide reliable information on science and
technology-related issues that are relevant to developing
countries. The organization operates a free-access website
that provides news, views and information on science,
technology and the developing world. It includes
policy-oriented 'dossiers' (http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/)
- news stories, policy brief and opinion articles - on key
issues (HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Brain Drain, Research and
Development, etc.). The site contains "eguide to science
communication" and "what's new" sections in English, Spanish
and French.
http://www.scidev.net/en/health/
Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
SARA focuses on building capacity in African health-related
institutions to strengthen research and analysis skills, and
develop dissemination and advocacy strategies. It
collaborates with over 20 African organizations. The site
includes full-text reports on the projects.
http://sara.aed.org/
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) ( Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The organization’s mission is to determine how universities can help ensure that biomedical end products, such as drugs, are made more accessible in poor countries and to increase the amount of research conducted on neglected diseases, or those diseases predominantly affecting people who are too poor to constitute a market attractive to private-sector R&D investment. UAEM works with student and faculty groups across the US, Europe and Canada. By assembling teams of experts, UAEM has constructed model licensing terms and policy documents that universities can use to improve global public health, and is currently working on crafting novel metrics for university technology transfer.
http://essentialmedicine.org/
Webgraphy of Health Resources (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This resource can be used to find information useful for
identifying priorities on global health research, to get
access to databases and bibliographic resources to formulate
research project and to provide links to potential
collaborators. Criteria for inclusion in the webgraphy were
the scientific, social and technical relevance of each
organization. Each cited source contains an annotation and
hypertext link to the specific organization. Published in
2005, it was produced by the Task Group on Building
Partnerships, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research.
http://www.ccghr.ca/docs/toolkit/webgraphy_e.pdf
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