Towards Forum 2012!

Our Institute has been working with COHRED for one year on the MDGs and health technologies issues. This led us to contribute to their COHRED-GFHR Forum 2012 to be held in Cape Town, South Africa April 24-26. 

This great event will bring together people from various backgrounds and countries: scientists, international institution and civil society representatives, NGOs, health authorities… around 3 themes:

• Theme 1: Improving and increasing investments in research and innovation
• Theme 2: Networking and partnership for research and innovation
• Theme 3: Creating environment that support research and innovation

Aviesan Session – April 25^th 2012

Theme 3: Creating environments that support R&I “Challenges and Successes in the Transfer of technology to low and middle income countries”

On Thursday April 25^th, the Institute of Health Technologies, part of Aviesan, will lead a session which will examine the challenges and successes of transferring technology to LMICs . This will be also the opportunity to give an update on HTech4Dev, the international initiative led by the Institute for Health Technologies.

13:30	Welcome
	François HIRSCH, Aviesan Introduction
Part 1 – Technologies overview
13:40	Nanotechnologies for Health François BERGER, Aviesan Nano-medicine: new business models on high tech medical devices Rome JUTABHA, National Innovation Agency, Thailand Nano-Medicine: The Potential Versus The Pitfalls – A Clinician’s Perspective Conor BURKE, Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Ireland Development of Point-of-Care Diagnostic Platforms for Applications in Global Health
14:30	Telemedicine Bram RAMJIAWAN, Saint-Boniface Hospital, Canada The Canadian model Zakir M. SIKDER, Telemedicine Reference Center Ltd., Bangladesh The Bangladeshi model
15:00-15:30	Market Place - Coffee Break - Priority Setting Café
Part 2 – Intellectual Property Issues and Technology Transfer
15:00	Keynote speech Julian KINDERLERER, Cape Town University, E.G.E. Brussels IP Issues in the context of LMICs
15:50	Health Technologies for Development François HIRSCH, Aviesan  Health Technologies for Development (HTech4Dev initiative) Marie-Paule KIENY, WHO Assistant Director-General  ‘ Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research’ Local production in support of access to medical technologies
16:15	Round Table : Specificity and challenges to be addressed on health technologies transfer in LMICs Chairman: Jacques GRASSI, CVT Sud, Aviesan; Guests: Konji SEBATI, WIPO – Mario OTTIGLIO, IFPMA Associate Director, Public Affairs & Global Health – Julian KINDERLERER, Cape Town University, E.G.E. Brussels
Part 3 – Civil Society Perspectives
17:30	Keynote speech Godfrey TANGWA, Yaounde University, Cameroon Transfer of Technology: telemedicine and nanotechnologies in the African context, prospects and challenges
18:00	End of the session

We are looking forward to meeting you there and discussing these crucial issues for development with you!

Interesting links:

• Forum 2012 whole program
• Topics Theme 3
• Active blogs