PROFESSIONAL ISSUES

World health organization: forum 8 + world summit on health research

Mexico City, November 6-10, 2004    

World Health Organization 
Website: http://www.globalforumhealth.org/pages/index.asp

Call for abstracts: Deadline for receipt of proposals is 31 May, 2004. 

Key topics include:
- The 10/90 gap in health research and the MDGs
- Contributions towards reaching the MDGs from the public sector, the private sector and civil society
- Cross-cutting issues and the MDGs, such as poverty, equity, gender, disability, research capacity strengthening,
  youth and ageing
- Research to deliver better health to families and communities, including health research for improved child and maternal
  health and for a sustainable environment
- Health research on diseases and determinants, including communicable, noncommunicable and chronic diseases,
  injuries and violence
- Measuring progress towards the MDGs, including financial flows, priority setting and indicators of progress
- Partnerships in health research for development, including networks and public-private partnerships