e-Health Research and Capacity Building in Latin America and the Caribbean
There is growing recognition that access to timely, accurate and appropriate information can help improve health outcomes.
There is growing recognition that access to timely, accurate and appropriate information can help improve health outcomes.
This grant will allow the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) to create, host and maintain a web-based resource on national health research in low- and middle-income countries in partnership with institutions in the South.
Research results have no value unless they are made available for due consideration by practitioners and policymakers. Scientific articles are not enough.
Providing equitable public health services in low-resource contexts requires locally relevant information. This is particularly true in Latin America and the Caribbean, where there is wide disparity in health services access and delivery.
Mexico is increasingly implementing health reforms directly informed by research-based evidence.
In 2004, the Wellcome Trust and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) agreed to commit GB £10 million each to a joint program, the Kenya-Malawi Health Research Capacity Strengthening Initiative (HRCS Initiative).