PHA-Exchange> Grand Challenges in Global Health (2)

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From: <masud at agni.com>


The great challenge I see is to produce human resources that will be
socially
accountable  and will fill the needs of the people.Its  not possible with
the health staff we are producing now in our medical institutions,
especially in
the  way developing countries follow western curricula!
Skills
development through basic training or in-service training that actually
takes health staff  closer to the people and help the community
at  the primary level with the care that  fits the people's health needs- is
what is desired.
My long experiences in Human Resources Develoment for health care give me
the thought that people
need care at their door step  and this is only possible when and if we
produce community-oriented health personnel.

Dr.Zahed Md.Masud
Executive Director
AITAM, Institute of MCH and Training
masud at agni.com
Dhaka. Bangladesh








At 08:44 AM 06/10/2003 +0700, you wrote:
> > From: "Harold Varmus at Grandchallengesgh.org"
> >
> > Subject: A Call for Ideas for Grand Challenges in Global Health
> >
> > Dear Friends and Colleagues:
> >
> > We are seeking ideas. Specifically, we seek the help of the interna-
> > tional health research community in identifying the greatest scien-
> > tific and technological challenges in global health-the principal
> > current challenges standing in the way of major progress. The Bill &
> > Melinda Gates Foundation has committed US$ 200 million to establish
> > the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative as a major new ef-
> > fort in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and
> > the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). Our aim
> > is to identify 10 to 15 critical scientific and/or technical chal-
> > lenges, which, if solved, could lead to important advances against
> > diseases and improve health in the developing world.
> >
> > This Call for Ideas is a call for your recommendations, and is the
> > first step in a novel two-phase approach. Between now and June 15, we
> > are asking health researchers around the world to submit their ideas
> > on what they consider to be the scientific Grand Challenges in Global
> > Health at this time. The Scientific Board that I chair will then re-
> > view the submissions and select the 10 to 15 most compelling chal-
> > lenges as official Grand Challenges for the initiative. These Grand
> > Challenges will be announced this fall, and solicitations for re-
> > search grant proposals to address them will follow.
> >
> > Our Web site, http://www.grandchallengesgh.org, provides a working
> > definition of what we mean by "grand challenges," details on the Call
> > for Ideas, instructions for submitting recommendations, an electronic
> > submission form and a list of the Scientific Board members. Research-
> > ers who do not have access to the Web may send an e-mail message to
> > <info at grandchallengesgh.org>, specifying whether they can receive a
> > PDF file or want the information faxed to a specific number.
> >
> > Submission of ideas through the Web site is preferred, but those un-
> > able to use this form of submission may e-mail their responses to
> > <callforideas at grandchallengesgh.org> or fax them to +1-301-480-2752.
> > Please read the Call for Ideas material carefully and follow the rec-
> > ommended format for submission.
> >
> > We welcome your interest in this significant new initiative, and en-
> > courage you to distribute this e-mail to other research colleagues
> > around the world who may have ideas to contribute.
> >
> > Responses are due by June 15, 2003.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Harold E. Varmus, M.D.
> > Chairman
> > Scientific Board
> > Grand Challenges in Global Health
> >
> >
> > Helen Burnett
> > Grand Challenges in Global Health
> > Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
> > 1 Cloister Court, Suite 152
> > Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
> > Tel.: +1-310-402-4970
> > mailto:burnetth at mail.nih.gov
> >
> >
> > DEFINITION
> >
> > What is a Grand Challenge?
> >
> > A Grand Challenge is a call for a specific scientific or technologi-
> > cal innovation that would remove a critical barrier to solving an im-
> > portant health problem in the developing world with a high likelihood
> > of global impact and feasibility. A Grand Challenge is neither the
> > statement of the global health problem itself (e.g., malaria or AIDS)
> > nor the request for a specific health intervention (e.g., a drug or
> > vaccine), but the call for a discrete scientific or technological in-
> > novation which will break through the roadblock that stands between
> > where we are now and where we would like to be in science, medicine,
> > and public health.
> >
> > For example, a Grand Challenge could be the discovery or creation of:
> > * A novel way to neutralize HIV that may be the critical limiting
> >   step in developing a preventive vaccine;
> > * An innovative technology that provided a fundamentally distinct
> >   platform to achieve point-of-care, accurate and affordable diagnos-
> >   tics;
> > * A viable method to alter mosquito behavior, control mosquito popu-
> >   lations or make mosquitoes inhospitable to disease organisms;
> > * A definitive way to stabilize antigens to heat to avoid the "cold
> >   chain" for vaccines.
> >
> > SCOPE
> >
> > What is the scope of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initia-
> > tive? The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative will address
> > the diseases and health conditions that cause the greatest morbidity
> > and mortality in the developing world, thus accounting for the enor-
> > mous health disparities between the developing and the developed
> > world, and that receive disproportionately less attention from the
> > scientific and technical community than their consequences demand.
> > The scope of the ultimate goals of the Grand Challenges in Global
> > Health initiative is broad, encompassing prevention, detection, diag-
> > nosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and surveillance and control of
> > diseases. The wide range of possible disciplines to be employed in-
> > cludes, but is not limited to, immunology and microbiology, genetics,
> > molecular and cellular biology, entomology, agricultural sciences,
> > clinical sciences, epidemiology, population and behavioral sciences,
> > ecology and evolutionary biology. Any scientific approach that has
> > the potential to address a Grand Challenge in a novel and potentially
> > powerful way might be supported by the initiative.
> >
> > © 2003, Grand Challenges in Global Health, All Rights Reserved.
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