when:  29.10.2007    

Event title  Beijing, CN: Forum 11

Where:  Asia - Asia 

Category:  Asia SUT events   

Event description: 

Forum 11

Beijing, 29 October - 2 November 2007

Equitable Access: Research challenges for health in developing countries

The health challenges faced by people around the world are manifested in the global threats from emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and in the rapidly increasing levels of noncommunicable diseases and injuries seen in developing countries. To achieve better health, particularly among the poor and marginalized in low- and high-income countries alike, there is a need to improve health systems and services, to ensure equitable and affordable access to these and to good quality medicines, and to address social inequities based on gender, ability, age, class, caste and race/ethnicity that produce and exacerbate poor health. Beyond the treatment of ill-health, much more attention is needed to create the conditions that enable individuals, communities and countries to promote better health - e.g. through information about good practices and avoidance of risk behaviours, and through improvements in the physical and social environments in which people live and work.

Research for health has a vital role to play in all these areas, as an originator of new knowledge and technologies; as an essential ingredient in the successful identification of problems and solutions; and as a key element in ensuring effective and equitable implementation of interventions.

The Forum meeting of the Global Forum for Health Research has become established as a premier annual event that brings together policy-makers, development partners and the directors and users of research, to debate critical gaps and to mobilize campaigns that address the health needs of the poor and marginalized. We are pleased to announce that, at the invitation of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China, Forum 11 will take place in Beijing from 29 October to 2 November 2007.