Kampala Family Planning Conference
Veronica Ades MD, MPH is a Fellow in Reproductive Infectious Disease at the University of California, San Francisco and is spending a year coordinating clinical research in Tororo, Uganda. She attended the International Conference on Family Planning in Kampala November 15th-18th and shared some highlights earlier this week. The International Conference on Family Planning is taking place in Kampala, Uganda this week. Supported by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for Population and Reproductive Health, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Makerere University, the conference is foc

Malaria vaccines: One step forward… Several steps to go
Obi Nnedu MD, MPH is an Infectious Disease Fellow at the University of Washington and has received a scholarship as a NIH Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow to work in Kenya. He recently attended the MIM conference in Nairobi and shares some of his impressions here. The 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African conference was recently held in Nairobi. The world’s leading malaria scientists converged

Forum 2009, No. 3: Site Visit to Ramón Pando Ferrer Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology (#GFHR09)
todo: italics, bullets TITLE: Forum 2009, No. 3: Site Visit to Ramón Pando Ferrer Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology (#GFHR09) The Global Forum for Health Research “Forum 2009: Innovating for the Health of All” takes place this week in Havana, Cuba from 16-20 November. This is the third of a series of posts from the conference. The conference organized afternoon site visits to Cuban institutions on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this week. The hot ticket was a visit to any of the institutions comprising the West Havana Biotechnology Park (”Polo Científico del Oeste de La Habana”), a cluster of 53 institutions such as the Finlay In

Forum 2009, No. 2: South-South Cooperation & Scaling Social Entrepreneurship Models (#GFHR09)
The Global Forum for Health Research “Forum 2009: Innovating for the Health of All” takes place this week in Havana, Cuba from 16-20 November. This is the second of a series of posts from the conference. From Tuesday’s sessions, there were two parallel concepts related to developing countries assisting developing countries: governmental South-South cooperation and social entrepreneurs who have scaled their own models, a different form of South-South cooperation. In the morning, key ideas about governments helping each other: 1) Many partnerships, new and old. Cuba-Africa (see last post), China Africa (10 ag centers recently announced),

Forum 2009, No. 1: Innovation Focus on Cuba (#GFHR09)
The Global Forum for Health Research “Forum 2009: Innovating for the Health of All” takes place this week in Havana, Cuba from 16-20 November. This is the first of a series of posts from the conference. Because of challenges to getting and staying online here, posts will be in dispatch format. That means delayed, linkless, medialess, error-prone, and far from comprehensive. The meeting opened Monday with a plenary featuring: -Gill Samuels, Chair of the Foundation Council, Global Forum for Health Research -José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera, Minister of Public Health, Republic of Cuba -José Ramón Fernández Álvarez, Vice President of