PHA-Exchange> reference materials

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.From: "Philippine Health Social Science Association" <phssa at mydestiny.net>
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> Health InterNetwork
> The Health InterNetwork aims to bridge the "digital divide" in health by
> ensuring that
> relevant information - and the technologies to deliver it - are widely
> available and effectively used by health personnel, researchers,
> scientists, and policy makers.
> Launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations in September
> 2000 and led by
> the World Health Organization, the Health InterNetwork brings together
> public and
> private partners under the principle of ensuring equitable access to
> health
> information.
> As the first phase of making vital health content available, the Health
> InterNetwork has
> provided internet access to a vast library of the latest and best
> information on public
> health: nearly 1,500 scientific publications.  This collection is
> available through the efforts of WHO together with the 6 biggest
> biomedical publishers: Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt
> Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science,
> Springer Verlag and John Wiley.
> Please visit the Health InterNetwork at: http:/
> /www.healthinternetwork.net

> Media/materials for health communication
> The Media/Materials Clearinghouse at the Johns Hopkins University Center
> for
> Communication Programs has developed a new CD-ROM: "Media/Materials for
> Health
> Communication" which is a portable version of the M/MC's website: a
> resource center with
> numerous databases of health communication materials, photographs,
> videos, etc., as well
> as several M/MC newsletters. Also included is a checklist that walks the
> user through the
> planning and establishment of a multi-media resource center.
> To order your free copy, contact:
> Susan Leibtag
> Email: sleibtag at jhuccp.org
> Please include your:
> Name, Title, Organisation, Address, City/
> State/Postal Code/Country, Phone, Fax and
> E-mail address.
> 
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> The International Foundation for Science (IFS)
> 
> Call for Research Grant Applications from
> Developing Country Scientists
> 
> The International Foundation for Science (IFS) provides support to young
> scientists of merit
> in developing countries by awarding research grants and additional
> services such as travel
> grants and purchasing assistance.
> 
> IFS supports research related to the renewable utilisation of biological
> resources. In the
> health field, research topics supported include nutrition (relating to
> food composition),
> micronutrients, weaning foods, food safety, alternatives to use of
> chemicals in food
> production, zoonotic pathogens (epidemiology, control and prevention),
> water
> quality, and medicinal products, including traditional medicines.
> Proposals for projects
> may address biological, chemical, or physical processes as well as
> social and economic
> relationships important in the conservation, production, and renewable
> utilisation of the
> biological resource base.
> Research grants are awarded up to a maximum value of USD 12,000 for a
> period of one to
> three years and may be renewed twice. They are intended for the purchase
> of equipment,
> expendable supplies, and literature.  Applicants must be citizens of,
> and carry out
> the research at, a university or national research institution in a
> developing country
> (see the IFS Website for a list of eligible countries). Candidates must
> be under the age
> of 40 (under 30 for applicants from China), at the start of their
> research career, and have an MSc degree or equivalent.
> Applications in English or French can be submitted to the Secretariat by
> mail or
> electronically.
> IFS
> Grev Turegatan 19
> S-114 38 Stockholm
> Sweden
> Fax: +46 8 5458 1801
> Email: info at ifs.se
> Website: http://www.ifs.se
>