PHA-Exchange> Research challenges for health in developing countries

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From: "Jawad Asghar" <jawad at alumni.washington.edu>

> Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing
> countries
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> Date: Mar 1, 2007 2:46 PM
> Subject: Equitable access: research challenges for health in
> developing countries
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> YOUNG VOICES IN RESEARCH FOR HEALTH
> Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing
> countries
> 
> The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet are
> sponsoring their second joint essay competition on the occasion
> of Forum 11 the 2007 annual meeting of the Global Forum for
> Health Research in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 29
> October to 2 November 2007
> 
> Entries are invited from young professionals working in or
> interested in the broad spectrum of health research for
> development relating to some aspect of the overall theme of
> Forum 11
> 
> Deadline for receipt of entries: 20 April 2007
> 
> Full details available at: http://www.globalforumhealth.org
> 
> 
> Rules, guidelines, principles, timeframe and prizes
> 
> - Essays should be no more than 1500 words and should be written
> in English.
> 
> - Essays must be based on the author's own ideas and not be
> derived from another source.
> 
> - They should not have been previously published.
> 
> - They should include original, even provocative ideas and not
> be technical or academic texts: tables, charts, figures and
> references are probably not necessary.
> 
> - Authors are free to be idealistic, passionate, to take
> established practices to task, albeit in a constructive fashion.
> 
> - Entries are individual.
> 
> - Each author may submit one essay only.
> 
> - Authors should have been born on or after 1 January 1977.
> 
> - The deadline for receipt of entries is 20 April 2007.
> 
> - A shortlist will be announced by the end of June. Shortlisted
> authors will be asked to provide a high quality photograph and
> to confirm original authorship and date of birth.
> 
> - The winners will be notified by the beginning of August 2007.
> The judges' decision will be final.
> 
> - A selection of shortlisted essays will be published in an
> anthology.
> 
> - Winning essays will also be published on the Lancet website
> and their authors invited to take part in Forum 11 with all
> expenses paid.
> 
> Staff members of the Global Forum or of the Lancet or their
> immediate families are ineligible to enter the competition, as
> are authors of commended and winning entries from 2006.
> 
> For full details and submission of entries, see:
> http://www.globalforumhealth.org
> 
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> Rana Jawad Asghar MD. MPH.
> Coordinator South Asian Public Health Forum
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