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Month: December 2022

Conference organized by TGHN on Enabling Health Research in Every Healthcare Setting on the 24-25 November, 2022 at South Africa

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The Global Health Network organized a conference on Enabling Health Research in Every Healthcare Setting on the 24-25 November, 2022 at South Africa.

The Global Health Network stated that they will be working with all the speakers and presenters to conclude some far-reaching recommendations as the conference aims to create lasting change in research capacity and outputs across the globe.

Pic: Chairing the session: Engaging community in every steps of research cycle, talking to Trudie Lang 

There was a number of speakers, chairs and panel members from around the world where Dr. Mahesh Kumar Maskey (Founding Chair and Executive Chief, Nepal Public Health Foundation) had attended the conference to chair one of the sessions.

Pic: Trudie Lang, Director of The Global Health Network  addressing the conference

Day 1 included Welcoming and Opening by Professor Pontiano Kaleebu, Director, Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) & Director of MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Uganda. Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Director- General a.i., Africa Centres of Disease Control and Prevention, Ethiopia and Professor Trudie Lang, Director, The Global Health Network, United Kingdom where the four sessions were as follows:

  • – Fostering Leadership and Building Lasting Capable Research Teams
  • – Ensuring Research Findings are Taken Up into Policy and Practice
  • – Enabling Health Research in Every Healthcare Setting
  • – Engaging the Community in Every Step of the Research Cycle

The fourth session was chaired by Dr. Mahesh K. Maskey and the Plenary Speaker was Dr. Gustavo Matta, Public Health Researcher, FIOCRUZ, Brazil on Community Engagement – Our Experience with Zika in Brazil.

Day 2 consisted of a special conference session: Announcing the Designation of The Global Health Network as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre & Inviting Engagement with a New Open-Access Online Tool to Support Health Research.

The following sessions were conducted on Day 2:

  • – Improving Health Research Methods and Processes
  • – Preventing Pandemics with Responsive Research Systems
  • – Generating New Evidence from Data Related to Health
  • – Women in Research

 

For more info regarding the conference:

https://hub.tghn.org/event-tghn/global-health-network-conference/

Panel discussion conducted on Linkage of research, education and extension regarding pesticide minimization” on December 6th, 2022 (Mangsir 20, 2079)

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Farming, Health and Environment Nepal (FHEN) project, a collaboration between NPHF and ICOEPH/DASAM, organized a panel discussion on Linkage of research, education and extension regarding pesticide minimization” on December 6th, 2022 (Mangsir 20, 2079).

The objectives of this panel discussion were as follows:

  •       To share knowledge/experiences/ studies on the issue of chemical pesticides.
  •       To address the status of the association between Research, Extension, and Education in Nepal for pesticide minimization.
  •       To discuss the current gap in association between Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension for pesticide minimization.
  •       To discuss the ways forward to foster the association for pesticide minimization.

(Pic: From the left; Ms. Subeksha Shrestha, Dr. Chuman Lal Das, Dr. Mahesh Kumar Maskey,Dr. Deepak Bhandari, Mr. Achyut Prasad Dhakal, Mr. Rojan Karki)

The panellists for the program were:

Panellist:

Dr. Chuman Lal Das

(Director, Epidemiology and Disease Control Division)

Dr. Deepak Bhandari

(Executive Director of the Nepal Agricultural Research Council, NARC)

Dr. Pradip Gyanwali

(Executive Chief of Nepal Health and Research Council, NHRC)

Mr. Achyut Prasad Dhakal

(Central Steering Committee member, NPHF)

Ms. Subeksha Shrestha

(Program Coordinator, Himalayan College of Science and Technology)

Mr. Rojan Karki

(Assistant Professor, Himalayan College of Science and Technology)

And the program was moderated by Dr. Mahesh Kumar Maskey

(Founding Chair and Executive Chief, Nepal Public Health Foundation)

The Farming, Health and Environment Nepal (FHEN) project, a collaboration between NPHF and ICOEPH/DASAM.

There were students from Himalayan College of Agricultural Science and Technology (HICAST)  and BPH (Bachelor of Public Health) and MPH (Master of Public Health) students from Institute of Medicine (IOM) as audience present for the panel discussion who engaged during the open floor discussion.