[e-drug] MSF hosts briefing on CIPIH report 19 May

E-DRUG: MSF hosts briefing on CIPIH report 19 May
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dear E-druggers

Tomorrow Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) will host a briefing by Madame
Ruth Dreifuss, chair of the Commission on Intellectual Property, Innovation
and Public Health (CIPIH). The report of the Commission will be presented
to the World Health Assembly (WHA) next week.

We have understood that WHO will not hold a briefing on the CIPIH report
at the WHA this year. Mme Dreifuss will not address the World Health
Assembly.

We know that several e-drug readers will be in Geneva for the WHA
following the debates on the CIPIH report and the proposal by Kenya and
Brazil for a GLobal Framework on Essential Health R&D.

We are therefore pleased to invite you to a lunch briefing by Mme Dreifuss
on the report by the WHO Commission on Intellectual Property, Innovation
and Public Health (CIPIH) in light of the forthcoming discussions at the
World Health Assembly on a global framework for essential health research
and development.

The meeting will take place at MSF’s offices, 78, rue de Lausanne, Geneva.

Friday 19th May 2006, from 12.30 to 2.30pm.

Please RSVP confirming your attendance to: mai.do@msf.org

To download the full report:
http://www.who.int/intellectualproperty/documents/thereport/en/index.html

regards

Ellen F.M. 't Hoen LL.M.
Medecins sans Frontieres
Access to Essential Medicines Campaign
8, rue Saint - Sabin
75544 Paris cedex 11
France
tel: + 33 1 4021 2836
fax: + 33 1 40212960
e-mail: ellen.t.hoen@paris.msf.org
www.accessmed-msf.org

E-DRUG: Evidence-based medicine - training of trainers workshop
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Dear E-druggers,

Please contact me for the application form, if you are interested to attend this workshop on evidence-based medicine in the UK. Limited number of scholarship for participants from developing countries will be available.

Dr Klara Tisocki
CASPin Executive Committee member
e-mail: ktisocki@yahoo.ie
Phone: +965 7975493
Fax: +1866-284-1909
Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University
Kuwait

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Critical Appraisal Skills International (CASPin)

Each year CASPin runs a Training Week for health and social care professionals which promotes the use of research in practice. The CASP model promotes a user-friendly, sustainable and cost-effective teaching approach, which has already been implemented in several countries. This year, as in previous years, the CASPin Training Week will be facilitated by international trainers from the CASP International Network, who will facilitate the week’s training and share their experience of evidence-based practice.
   
New to the Training Week, this year CASPin will be run in parallel with the 12th Oxford Workshop on Teaching Evidence-Based Practice, therefore participants will have the added benefit of attending plenaries by some of the leading exponents of Evidence-Based Practice.
   
Training Week Aims By the end of this course, participants will feel confident about:
  · Finding and critically appraising research evidence
  · Teaching critical appraisal skills to others.
   
Training Week Objectives

The objectives for the week are to:
    
*Enhance understanding of evidence-based practice in health and social care
*Develop skills in appraising quantitative or qualitative research literature
*Develop change management skills for putting evidence into practice
*Develop delegates’ facilitation and teaching skills to run their own critical appraisal workshops
*Share tools to support the dissemination (“cascading”) of local training
   
Workshop format

Most of the Workshop will be conducted in small groups. Plenary sessions will present and discuss general issues in planning, executing, and evaluating EBP, and will demonstrate large-group strategies for teaching EBM. Searching and study time will be provided, and informal social events will encourage free discussion and the establishment of ongoing links.
   
Programme

The programme is built around the core principles of evidence-based practice.
   
Participants are asked to choose from two study tracks, either the Quantitative Pathway or the Qualitative Pathway
   
Workshop facilitators

Workshop facilitators have been practicing and teaching EBM at sites across the UK, Europe and North America and Australasia. Teaching staff include:
  Dr. Amanda Burls, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health and Epidemiology, ex-Director of CASPuk and co-founder of CASPin
  Dr. Peter Bradley, Director of Public Health and Health Improvement
  Professor Paul Glasziou (Chair), Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and Editor of the Journal Evidence-Based Medicine
  Dr. Sharon Straus, co-author of How to Practice and Teach Evidence-Based Medicine
  Professor Rod Jackson, Professor of Epidemiology and the Director of EPIQ from the University of Auckland
  Dr. Stuart Carney, Director of Education, Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health and Director, LNR Foundation School
   
Further information and enquiries Further information will be sent within 2 weeks of receipt of your application form. Please direct other enquiries to:
Mrs Olive Goddard
Tel: +44 (0)1865 226991
Fax: +44 (0)1865 226845
Email: olive.goddard@dphpc.ox.ac.uk
www.cebm.net