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/ 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/ 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 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 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 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/ 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 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/ 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 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/ 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 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 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/ 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 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 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 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 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/ 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/ 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/ 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 Help us to improve Essential Health Links. 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