The Global Health Network Annual Report 2019

Chairman’s View
Professor Pontiano Kaleebu, Chair, The Steering Committee
Almost ten years have passed since this idea was first brought to me
whilst we were sitting under some trees outside a capacity development
meeting we were holding in Entebbe. I’m so delighted to see how this
straightforward idea for health researchers to share what they have
learnt and what they do has flourished in this remarkable way!
We need more research to be led from Africa and the other regions,
and to make this fundamental shift our researchers need to access
information, training, resources AND each other! I am very happy to see
that The Global Health Network is now really the place our teams can
go to and find all they need for running excellent world-class studies.
This platform is filling the gaps and joining up everyone working on
different diseases, in different places and allowing for the sharing of
‘how to’ between them.
I think we need to look forward now and see how we can use this
platform to take research findings into practice and policy, to see how we
can improve, how we do studies and really make evidence generation
part of how we work better to manage, treat and prevent the worst
diseases that cause such devastating mortality in our communities.
I am proud and delighted to chair the steering committee of The Global
Health Network, and I hope you enjoy reading this annual report –
more importantly I hope it encourages YOU to get involved with this,
if you are not already. Please use this platform to share your methods,
tools and knowledge and help make health research faster, easier and
better across the globe.
Yours
Professor Pontiano Kaleebu,
Director MRC/UVRI Uganda Unit
Head - Basic Sciences Programme