A Call for Action to Strengthen Health Research Capacity in Low and Middle Income Countries

IAMP STATEMENT ENDORSED BY MEMBER ACADEMIES

The draft Call for Action to Strengthen Health Research Capacity in Low and Middle Income Countries has obtained the endorsement of a majority of the IAMP membership and has been issued as an IAMP statement on the occasion of World Health Assembly discussions on the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination on Friday 24 May 2013. Support for the Statement has also been expressed by the Global Young Academy (GYA).

STATEMENT

Call for Action to Strengthen Health Research Capacity in LMIC

STATEMENT IN CHINESE

IAMP Call for Action in Chinese

PRESS RELEASE

Press Release – English

Press release in Chinese

Press release in Spanish

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In our efforts to disseminate the statement as widely as possible, various awareness-raising events are being organized. member academies have been invited to translate the statement and where possible – the press release to accompany the statement in English. Appreciation to the Chinese Academyof Engineering and the Academia Nacionale de Medicina, Colombia for the translations provided.

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LINKS TO COMMENTS ON THE STATEMENT

	Seven ways to assist health research in developing nations http://www.scidev.net/global/capacity-building/news/health-research-deve… Source: SciDev – 27 June 2014
	Weak research capacity holds back progress on diseases http://www.trust.org/item/20131205113741-aiwr3/ Source: SciDev – Thu, 5 Dec 2013 11:37 AM
	Symposium on “Research Capacity Strengthening in LMIC” World Health Summit (Federal Foreign Office) Berlin, Germany 21 October 2013
	Reference has been made to the IAMP Statement ” A Call for Action to Strengthen Health Research Capacity in Low and Middle Income countries” in the FEAM Commentary to be published in the next Quarterly Journal of Medicine Reforming the EU environment for clinical trials: what are the challenges? R. Fears; H.E. Blum; D. Kelleher; F. Meunier; R. Souhami QJM 2013; doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hct149 Full text: http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/hct149?ijkey=vz48UzFd8etTKu0&keytype=ref
	Special Launch Event of the Statement by IAMP at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy 4 July 2013
	IAMP/FEAM Workshop on Integrated Education in One Health Hungarian Academy of Sciences 5 June 2013, Budapest Hungary
	Federation of European Academies of Medicine FEAM, Spring Conference Irish Academy of Medical Sciences 29th May 2013, Dublin Ireland. Presentation of the Call for Action to FEAM by IAMP
	COHRED supports the Call for Action
	ASSAf announces IAMP Call for Action