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No Development Without Research
Nuyens, Yvo
Nuyens, Yvo
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"The Commission on Health Research for Development, an independent international initiative, was formed in 1987 to recommend how research might improve the health and well-being of the people of the developing world. Following a worldwide analysis of health conditions and health research, the Commission concluded that research is essential both to facilitate health action and to generate new understanding and fresh interventions. In its fi nal report, presented at the Nobel Conference in Stockholm, Sweden (February 1990), the Commission formulated a set of strategies through which the power of research can be harnessed to accelerate health improvements and to overcome health disparities worldwide. Building and sustaining research capacity is one of the proposed strategies. In November 2004, the World Health Organization brought together in Mexico City a number of ministers of health, ministerial representatives, international organizations, networks, donor agencies, research programmes and institutions from 58 countries in a Ministerial Summit on Health Research. Th is meeting was held in parallel and partly in common with Forum 8, the 2004 annual meeting of the Global Forum for Health Research. Th e two meetings shared the theme of health research to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Both emphasized the crucial but under-recognized part to be played by research in strengthening health systems, improving the equitable distribution of high quality services and advancing human development and recognized the need for a strong, transparent and sustainable national health research system, defi ned as the people, institutions and activities whose primary purpose is to generate relevant knowledge. Statements put out at the end of the Mexico meetings called for action by all stakeholders in a number of priority areas, one of which was capacity strengthening."(pg 1)
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2005
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