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Global Health Matters eNewsletter February 2011
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USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah extolled the role of scientific research in raising health standards around the world in a major health address at NIH.
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The recent political unrest in Egypt has thrust hundreds of thousands of demonstrators into the streets, changed the country’s government and shined a spotlight on an NIH-sponsored research training program that is credited with saving lives.
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The role of research in the eradication of three viral diseases – smallpox, polio and measles – tells us quite a lot about efforts to eradicate malaria, according to a newly published paper.
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NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation
March 21-22, 2011 - Bethesda, MD
Researchers, evaluators and implementers engage in dialog, exchange ideas, explore contemporary topics and challenge one another to identify and test research approaches that will advance dissemination and implementation science.
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NIH Sponsored Training on Impact Evaluation Using Randomized Trials
March 21-22, 2011 - Bethesda, MD
Fogarty is organizing this workshop in partnership with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a network of empirical research economists who specialize in international development and have acquired substantial expertise running randomized evaluations in such settings. Researchers in the J-PAL network have adapted the driving characteristic of randomization of the treatment to test the effectiveness of health programs and policies in what are often difficult environments.
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2011 Conference on HIV/AIDS Research - A Collaborative Solution for Tropical Diseases: The Luso-American Response
September 7-9, 2011 - Lisbon, Portugal
Submit abstracts to present by April 17, 2011. See the 2011 Conference Web site for abstract submission information.
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