Global health briefs June 2012

NIH launches stem cell center website

The NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine has launched a website to provide information regarding its efforts to support the clinical translation of stem cell-based technologies and develop widely available resources to be used as standards in stem cell research.

ESSENCE publishes report on research costing

A new best practice document offers five recommendations for researchers and funders that aim to make overhead allocation easier and more consistent. The report was produced by the ESSENCE on Health Initiative, a collaborative framework including Fogarty, designed to enable a scale-up in global research capacity.

• Access the ESSENCE good practice document Five keys to improving research costing in low- and middle-income countries from TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.

World Bank opens access

The World Bank has launched a new open access policy, created an online knowledge repository and adopted a set of new copyright licenses to make its research as widely available as possible.

• Access The World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository .

Mapping Africa’s research ethics capacity

The Council of Health Research Development has launched a web platform called "Mapping African Research Ethics Capacity," so stakeholders can share research ethics data in real time and track the geographical distribution of research ethics committees in Africa.

• Access the Health Research Web (HRWeb) world map of contact information for ethics reviews of health research in countries .

Smallpox model studied

Approaches that helped eliminate smallpox can inform today’s efforts to purge other global diseases, says a report highlighting findings from a historic symposium, "Smallpox eradication after 30 years: lessons, legacies and innovation."

• Access Smallpox Eradication after 30 Years: Lessons, Legacies and Innovations, Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation from the December 2011 supplement to Vaccine.

MEPI interviews online

Voices of Change is a new interactive site giving a glimpse at the experiences of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) grantees in Africa. Fogarty helps to administer MEPI.

• ghmmay-jun2012.pdf (3.17 MB)

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