A pioneering resource to help tackle birth defects, particularly in low and middle income countries (LMICs), is now fully available free and online to health and policy professionals and patient groups across the globe.
The PHG Foundation Health Needs Assessment Toolkit for Congenital Disorders (also known as birth defects), is a comprehensive database, information resource and roadmap to creating essential services in this neglected area. For the first time, health professionals in LMICs have (more...)

Last month, the Humanitarian Centre  successfully organized this webinar called “Getting in the Access Loop” – which explores how health research from Africa can have greater representation in journals, and therefore greater influence and impact – with the support from PLoS and HIFA2015.
Anne Radl, the Projects Manager of the Humanitarian Centre, wrote the first of a series of reflections: Getting in the Access Loop: Time for Research and Action. She points out that one of the key (more...)

This is the schedule for “Getting in the Access Loop” and some of the questions and topics you have suggested for discussion (below).  For biographies of the discussants, click here.
4pm BST (3pm GMT): Introduction to the seminar/webinar by Sacha DeVelle
Neil Pakenham-Walsh to introduce HIFA2015 webinars
4:05pm: 1st Session: Strengthening Pathways for Dialogue

Facilitator: Ginny Barbour

Discussants:

Janice Pedersen, RAND Europe
Cecil Haverkamp, University of Botswana (via computer)
Neil (more...)

Many thanks to the following people for facilitating the discussion on “Getting in the Access Loop:”
Sacha DeVelle has an extensive teaching and research background in education and linguistics gained from working in Australia, the United Kingdom, Latin America and East Africa. Her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Spanish at the University of Queensland, Australia was the impetus for further postgraduate study into the psychology of language. It was there that she co-ordinated the (more...)

The following is a list of organisations that were mentioned in the discussion on “Getting in the Access Loop: Enabling more Health Researchers in Africa to Publish Effectively.”
Each of these organisations was highlighted for successfully addressing key issues in building research capacity and promoting dissemination of research findings–and we hope it is a useful resource for those who wish to work on these issues in their own institutions.
To download the recording of “Getting in the Access (more...)

On 1 June 2012, The Humanitarian Centre will be hosting a seminar/webinar  to explore real ways in which African research and researchers can have greater representation in journal publications.  The discussion will take place from 4:00pm to 6:00pm at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, and concurrently, over the web using Elluminate Live!, so that colleagues in Africa, and in other places, can join and share ideas about how to increase accessibility to African research.  This seminar (more...)

 
Fifty students from over twenty UK universities took part in the UK’s first Aid 4 Health Simulation in Cambridge on March 9th & 10th. The simulation, organized by the Humanitarian Centre, aimed to capture the complex dynamics of the negotiations for aid and wider aid processes. Students played the role of a multitude of actors and institutions including, amongst others, ministries of the Malawian Government, the World Bank, UNICEF, the World Health Organisation and USAID.

Prior to the (more...)