Global Forum for Health Research - Forum 5
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"The 10/90 gap in health research: assessing the progress"
9-12 October 2001
Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.globalforumhealth.org/Forum5
The Global Forum for Health Research will hold its fifth annual meet-
ing entitled "The 10/90 gap in health research: assessing the pro-
gress" on 9-12 October 2001 in Geneva.
The Global Forum, an independent foundation established in Geneva in
1998, is committed to helping correct the 10/90 gap - a reference to
the fact that, of the USD70 billion spent annually on health research
by the public and private sectors, less than 10% is used for research
into 90% of the world's health problems.
The overall objective of Forum 5 is to review progress in helping
correct the 10/90 gap over the past three years and to plan further
action.
Participants will include some 500 policy-makers, researchers and
scientists, donors and administrators who will present their latest
results and contribute ideas for the next stages of work in health
research.
The programme will be divided into plenary and parallel sessions,
posters and special sessions. Forum 5 is a marketplace and partici-
pants can reserve their own "stalls" to display their projects or the
work of their organization.
Plenary sessions will feature keynote addresses and panel discussions
focusing on research into health problems of middle and low-income
countries which will ultimately influence all aspects of the 10/90
gap in health research. Topics include:
* The relationship between disease burden and funding in health re-
search
* The contribution of health and health research to economic growth
and equity
* Gender and health research
* Public-private partnerships and the 10/90 gap
* Policy research and the 10/90 gap
* The future of health research collaboration
Parallel sessions include research into the following topics: AIDS
care in Africa, AIDS drugs and vaccines, burden of disease, capacity
strengthening, cardiovascular health, child health and nutrition,
cost-effectiveness of health interventions, evaluating performance of
health research systems, gender-sensitive health services, health
policy and systems, health research in conflicts and disasters, in-
tellectual property protection, medicines for malaria, mental health,
microbicides, national health research systems, public-private part-
nerships, priority-setting, reproductive health, research by NGOs,
resource flows, road traffic injuries, sexual violence against women,
tobacco control, tuberculosis, violence prevention.
For further information and registration details, see:
http://www.globalforumhealth/Forum5
or contact
The Global Forum for Health Research
Tel: +41-22-791-4260
Fax: +41-22-791-4394
mailto:forum5@globalforumhealth.org
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