Biomedical Research in Developing Countries - UNICRI

interested in bioethics, it includes the most challenging issues of biomedicine, such
as protection of research subjects, reproductive and feminist bioethics, end of life
care, health care justice, intellectual disability, cloning, gene therapy, eugenics. It
also organizes training courses on bioethics: on June 2009 it will arranges the 35th
Intensive Course on Bioethics.
The library and information service web resource is a very useful source of
information, where people can find quick links to resources on special topics; search
for articles, documents, books and audio-visuals resources; request a custom
library; find publication, organizations, etc; check news and find library support.
The Institute’s Library and Information Services area, has implemented a new
programme for the promotion of research and education in bioethics in developing
countries, called International Bioethics Exchange Programme. IBEP permits to
donate to libraries abroad the volumes of the Bibliography on Bioethics, in order to
support and to promote the development of bioethics references in those countries.
Through IBEP it is also possible to contribute to the National reference Center for
Bioethics Literature at Georgetown University. Several countries have become
participants in this project.
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/
Global Forum for Health Research
GFHR
The Global Forum for Health Research (GFHR) was established as an independent
international foundation in 1998, to promote health research to tackle the neglected
diseases and conditions that cause ill health in developing countries and hinder social
and economic development. Since its foundation, the GFHR has focussed its mission
on helping to redress the 10/90 imbalance, in the recognition that, still to date, few
of the world’s resources for health research are directed to solving the health
problems of developing countries.
The 2009 Forum will be held in Havana, Cuba, from 16-20 November 2009 and it
will focus on “Innovating for the health of all”. The Forum will gather health and
science-related ministries, research institutions and academia, development agencies
and foundations, non-governmental organizations, civil society, the private sector
and the media.
http://www.globalforumhealth.org
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