With more than 115 programs profiled, this new, updated version responds to a growing interest in health services research and health policy and increasing demand for information about Post Baccalaureate certificates, Master's programs, Doctoral programs, and Postdoctoral programs in these fields. It has been expanded to include health policy research programs and the health policy tracks in public policy programs as well as the core health services research programs included in our two earlier editions-1997 and 1992. While the 2002 edition does not include international programs, other than the eight Canadian programs profiled, future editions may be expanded to include programs outside North America. Print copies will be available this spring. If Interested in profiling your program, please visit our website for detailed information. Contact Information: Virginia Van Horne,Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy,1801 K Street, NW, Suite 701-L,Washington, DC 20006. Tel: 202-292-6744 Fax: 202-292-6844
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APHRC’s research focuses on improving understanding of population and health issues through development and implementation of innovative, policy-oriented research programs to address the region’s key population and health challenges. APHRC’s research focus is organized into four themes: Urbanization and wellbeing; Population and Reproductive Health; Health Challenges and Systems; and Education. These research priorities have been selected to respond to needs identified by African governments and by multinational bodies and frameworks including the MDGs, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the Economic Commission for Africa, the African Union, and the World Health Organization, among others. Within each theme, we particularly focus on areas where there are considerable knowledge gaps and where building on our past investments and current strengths holds the greatest potential to improve the wellbeing of Africans. Our methods include primary research projects where we collect new data; secondary analysis of existing data; synthesis of evidence; scenario building; and monitoring and evaluation of interventions. We also seek to develop and use new methodologies, partnering with other institutions as needed.
The Alliance of Mayors and Municipal Leaders on HIV/AIDS in Africa (AMICAALL) website was launched this month to facilitate information dissemination and the sharing of experiences. The website is available in French and English. It includes information on AMICAALL strategy, the UN/AMICAALL Partnership Programme, country activities, Alliance contacts, documents and publications. For more information, please contact Milica Tomasevic.
This is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations, such as social movements, function and develop in more healthy, human and effective ways. The guide, with its supporting website, includes tried and tested concepts, approaches, stories and activities, and was developed by a global team of collaborating practitioners and activists. It offers a perspective on why organisations exist and the real role they play, and the importance of supporting local sovereignty of local organisations and social movements for meaningful social change. It provides a range of approaches to self-understanding as well as understanding the role of leaders and facilitators aiming to facilitate change in organisations. It looks at the significance of relationships and power dynamics, including tracking how organisations move through various phases of development, how change can be facilitated and the challenges faced in implementing or sustaining change.
The BIAS FREE Framework is a new, rights-based tool for identifying and eliminating biases deriving from social hierarchies in research, legislation, policies, programs, service delivery and practices. We know that you will find the BIAS FREE Framework of interest. See www.globalforumhealth.org to order hard copies or to download a pdf version.
The Body's mission is to: Use the Web to lower barriers between patients and clinicians. Demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment. Improve patients' quality of life. Foster community through human connection.
The Center for Disease Control's National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention has developed a Web site to assist organisations and individuals wishing to mark 5 June as the 20th commemoration of AIDS. The site includes significant articles, streaming Web videos, a 20-year timeline and other significant information.
HIVAN aims to showcase the positive, creative and proactive approaches in the fight against HIV/AIDS. They have currently focused largely on KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, but have drawn in from national sources, the rest of Africa and abroad. They've also tried to highlight partnerships, especially those which are multisectoral and multidisciplinary. The site also contain a comprehensive database of HIV/AIDS-related organisations and individuals and regularly updated listings of international funding opportunities.
The COVID-19 Action Fund for Africa is an action-oriented collaborative of over 30 organizations dedicated to protecting Community Health Workers (CHWs) on the frontlines of Africa’s COVID-19 response. The Fund’s goal is to raise up to $100 million to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to CHWs in as many as 24 African countries for approximately one year; shipments have already begun. The Fund matches donated PPE with government-identified gaps and conducts end-use verification processes with in-country partners to document arrival and distribution of the supplies. Integrated with national responses, this is the only known effort that pools resources for PPE items specifically for community health workers in Africa
In this TED talk, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie warns of ‘the danger of the single story’. She describes how impressionable and vulnerable people are in the face of a story, particularly as children. She notes that stories matter, but also that many stories matter and no single story can portray a reality. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.