Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Big step forward!

AVIESAN, COHRED, UNESCO and WHO strongly support the Forum!

We are pleased to announce that our initiative got the precious support from several international organizations!

AVIESAN hosts the Institute for Health Technologies and its President, Prof. André Syrota approves this initiative. 

COHRED-GFHR, represented by Carel IJseelmuiden, invited us to join the FORUM 2012 to be held in Cape Town, South Africa in April 2012. Our initiative will be launched in a satellite session at the FORUM 2012 where will  gather the main stakeholders of our initiative and people involved in the tech-transfer projects we are setting up!

UNESCO is also involved and represented by Shamila Nair-Bedouelle who works in "Science policy for sustainable development" division. She is familiar with working in partnership with emerging countries and fully understands their needs in terms of health technologies.

WHO recently joined our initiative and we are now working with them to define our partnership.

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