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Revitalising Health for All: 
Learning from Comprehensive Primary Health Care Experiences
(A project funded that will involve PHM)


This four year project, led by Drs. Ronald Labonté (Canada) and David Sanders 
(PHM South Africa) is funded by the Canadian Global Health Research Initiative 
through the Teasdale-Corti Global Health Research Partnership Program. It 
arose from initial discussions at the first IPHC/PHM International Peoples 
Health University (IPHU) held in Cuenca, Ecuador, July 2005.  

What is the Teasdale-Corti Global Health Research Partnership Program?

The Teasdale-Corti Global Health Research Partnership Program is an innovative 
new collaborative health research program developed by the Canadian Global 
Health Research Initiative  with input from the Canadian Health Services 
Research Foundation and Canadian and developing country partners. It is 
inspired by the ongoing legacy of Drs Lucille Teasdale and Piero Corti, a 
Canadian and Italian medical couple who dedicated their lives to bringing the 
full spectrum of health care to rural Ugandans through St. Mary’s Hospital in 
Lacor, Uganda. 

Thirteen projects in total were funded, one of which was our University of 
Ottawa/PHM project. 

What will the Revitalising Health for All project do? 

Over the next four years, Revitalising Health for All will provide training, 
support and small amounts of research funding for junior researchers and their 
policy or program partners to undertake new studies of Comprehensive Primary 
Health Care (CPHC). These studies will answer questions of local and regional 
importance. The overall goal of the project is to build regional and global 
networks of researchers and policy-makers who want to use research knowledge 
as one tool for advancing (and revitalizing) CPHC. Regional training programs 
will be held annually in four parts of the world: India, Africa, Latin America 
and Australia/Canada (with a focus on Aboriginal peoples in the latter two 
countries). These training programs will be held in 2008, 2009 and 2010 under 
the auspices of IPHU. Regional meetings to bring together a larger number of 
interested individuals and groups will be held alongside these training 
programs in 2009 and 2010.  

More information on the Project, as it develops, will be shared through PHA-
exchange on a regular basis.

For more information contact:  Dr. Corinne Packer, Research Coordinator, 
Revitalising Health for All; cpacker at uottawa.ca




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