The main objective of this initiative organized as part of the United Nation Millennium Development Goals, led by the Institute for Health Technologies (member of Aviesan, the French National Alliance for Life Sciences and Health), is to set up a sustainable Forum allowing international stakeholders to gather for the promotion of concrete projects to implement new Technologies for Health in developing countries.
Management Board
This project is led by a team from the Institute for Health Technologies with support from COHRED-GFHR:
- François Hirsch, Coordinator, Assist.-Dir. Aviesan/Inserm, Institute for Health Technologies
- Franck Lethimmonier, Aviesan/CEA, Dir. Institute for Health Technologies
Advisory Board
Scientists or people from international organizations willing to help us develop our initiative and contribute to health improvement in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs):
- Victor Demaria-Pesce, Inserm & European Space Agency
- Carel IJsselmuiden, Dir. COHRED Group
- Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO Assist.-Dir.-Gen. ‘ Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research’
- Sandra Murriello, Especialización en Divulgación de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina
- Bram Ramjiawan, Dir. Research, Innovation and Regulatory Affairs at St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada
Institutional partners
- Aviesan: Inserm, CEA, CNRS, IRD, Inria, Pasteur Institutes
- COHRED Group (Council On Health Research and Development & Global Forum for Health Research)
- WHO (World Health Organization)
