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 The Health Research Promotion and Development department presents featured upcoming, ongoing, and past events for training and skill development. We hope the opportunities and links we have listed below are useful to you. If we are missing an event or to give us feedback for this page please email us at
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Coming Up:
Erasmus Summer Programme 2011: provides international students and academic health professionals with an invaluable opportunity to spend up to three weeks in an unequalled academic environment, bringing themselves up-to-date in the health sciences.
Workshop on Developing a Systematic Review by the Cochrane Eye and Vision Group and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD, July 13-15, 2011. For more information visit www.eyes.cochrane.org or email
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Ongoing:
PAHO Research Interest Group is an informal and collegial discussion spacefostering the exchange of information about research needs and interests. Our most recent discussion was "Stem Cell Research" led by Dr. John Tisdale and is available via Elluminate.
Evidence-Based Medicine Workshop. This yearly workshop teaches how to critically appraise and use evidence when making decisions. Targeted to different audiences including policy makers, health care providers, journalists, patient advocates and health experts, it is offered every year in July in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, and the USA.
Effective Project Planning and Evaluation in Biomedical Research (EPPE)
A skills-building course that aims to strengthen program management capacity in health research. Participants learn to implement and monitor projects and accurately report and evaluate success. This leads to realistic and structured proposals, including clear research outputs that will increase their competitiveness for funding. Developed by Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) - WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, the workshop is offered in the Americas in collaboration with PAHO and the Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (International center for Training and Medical Research)- Colombia to various research institutions. This collaboration, TDR, CIDEIM and PAHO, has trained roughly 340 researchers and 40 facilitators in 15 countries between 2007 and April, 2010. Most of the trained investigators work in Latin America or the Caribbean. For further information about the course please contact
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. EPPE workshop in UWI, August 2010, press release.
Course materials:
1. Course Brochure
2. Trainers’ manuals (Spanish)
3. Participants’ manuals (Spanish)
Webinars. A series of online seminars covering diverse topics:
Cochrane Canada Webinars
Past Events:
Research Interest Group (RIG). The Research Interest Group (RIG) resumed its sessions with a presentation on social protection led by Dr. Julio Siede, consultant on the issue for the Project Public Policies and Health Research Group. Dr. Siede’s presentation can be consulted here. The RIG is organized and coordinated by the interns of the research team who contribute through the organization, convocation, and agenda of the sessions. The next meeting of the RIG will be at the end of April.
Workshop on "Research Ethics": Took place November 1-3, 2010. This event was organized by PAHOERC in coordination with HRM/CW and with the support from WHO-ERC and the WHO Center in Ethics and Global Health Policy. For more information email
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Workshop on "Guideline Development Methods"
This workshop was offered in English at PAHO Headquarters September 16-17, 2010, and was Chaired by Dr. Holger J. Schünemann and Nancy Santesso from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. The purpose of the workshop was to promote the implementation of recommended processes for the development of guidelines and technical documents regarding scientific evidence.
Clinical Trials Register Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean (238.75 kB) BIREME/PAHO/WHO. Sao Paulo: 2007.
This report is still a preliminary vision for a Clinical Trial Register Platform for LAC. It collects and presents valuable information to accomplish the task and fosters further discussion and more detailed specifications. Future versions of this document will give further information about missing details such as data preparation and how the search and retrieval engine should work.
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