[EQ] Reminder: Revitalizing Health for All - A Call for Expressions of Interest

Revitalizing Health for All:

A Call for Expressions of Interest to Participate in New Research and Research Training in

Comprehensive Primary Health Care

 

The Globalization and Health Equity Research Unit at the Institute of Population Health - University of Ottawa

English version: http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/electronic%20library/Call%20for%20Expressions%20of%20Interest%20CPHC.pdf

 

Spanish version: http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/electronic%20library/Solicitud%20de%20declaration%20de%20interes%20APSI.pdf

 

Deadline 31 March 2008

 

“…..In 2007, an international network of researchers and people involved in building comprehensive primary health care (CPHC) received funding to support research and research capacity-building. This network, associated with the People’s Health Movement, includes individuals in India, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Canada and Australia.

 

By comprehensive primary health care, we mean an approach to health systems organization and services that tries to achieve the following:

a. increased equity in access to health care and other services/resources essential to health

b. reduced vulnerabilities through changes in community empowerment (capacities)

c. reduced exposures to risk through changes in social and environmental determinants of health

d. improved participatory mechanisms and political capabilities of marginalized population groups reached by comprehensive primary health care initiatives

e. increased community resilience to enable effective responses to promote and protect health

f. equitable increase in population health outcomes

 

With funding support from the Canadian Global Health Research Initiative and its ‘Teasdale-Corti’ Research Program, our project goals are to:

a. systematically review recent past experiences of comprehensive primary health care from different regions of the
    world to determine what we know about how it works, what it needs to work and what it has accomplished 3

b. train up to 20 early career primary health care researchers in undertaking new or augmenting existing
   CPHC research studies, in teams with ‘research users’ (health policy or program planners) and research
    mentors (experienced CPHC researchers)

c. provide financial support to these research teams to undertake their proposed studies

d. support the building of regional networks of researchers and research users (including civil society groups)
    to advance comprehensive primary health care as the basis for health system reform in their own countries

e. create a rigorously sound knowledge base on the role of comprehensive primary health care in improving
    health equity that can be used in the advocacy work of these regional networks

 

Call for Expressions of Interest

The project is now seeking applications (‘Expressions of Interest’) from research teams committed to developing important new knowledge and action on comprehensive primary health care. These research teams will come from one of four different areas/regions in which are focusing our overall project work:

Region 1: India and South Asia

Region 2: Africa

Region 3: Latin America

Region 4: Indigenous/Aboriginal peoples in Canada and Australia

 

Timeline:

31 March 2008: Deadline for Expressions of Interest

September – November 2008: Two week training program (see ‘Proposed Venues and Dates for Regional
                                                        Training Programs’ at end of this Call for Expressions of Interest)

October 2008 – November 2010: New funded research studies

September – November 2009: First regional meeting and 3 day Training Program

September – November 2010: Second regional meeting

Sometime in 2011: A global meeting on overall project results (to be determined, based on obtaining new funding

 

Contact Information:

Corinne Packer, Researcher, PhD - Institute of Population Health - University of Ottawa

Email: cpacker@uottawa.ca - tel:  (613) 562-5800 ext. 2053 - fax:  (613) 562-5659

1 Stewart Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
 
 

 

 

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