[afro-nets] Research challenges for health in developing countries

[Jawad Asghar <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>]

Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing
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YOUNG VOICES IN RESEARCH FOR HEALTH
Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing
countries

The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet are
sponsoring their second joint essay competition on the occasion
of Forum 11 the 2007 annual meeting of the Global Forum for
Health Research in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 29
October to 2 November 2007

Entries are invited from young professionals working in or
interested in the broad spectrum of health research for
development relating to some aspect of the overall theme of
Forum 11

Deadline for receipt of entries: 20 April 2007

Full details available at: http://www.globalforumhealth.org


Rules, guidelines, principles, timeframe and prizes

- Essays should be no more than 1500 words and should be written
in English.

- Essays must be based on the author's own ideas and not be
derived from another source.

- They should not have been previously published.

- They should include original, even provocative ideas and not
be technical or academic texts: tables, charts, figures and
references are probably not necessary.

- Authors are free to be idealistic, passionate, to take
established practices to task, albeit in a constructive fashion.

- Entries are individual.

- Each author may submit one essay only.

- Authors should have been born on or after 1 January 1977.

- The deadline for receipt of entries is 20 April 2007.

- A shortlist will be announced by the end of June. Shortlisted
authors will be asked to provide a high quality photograph and
to confirm original authorship and date of birth.

- The winners will be notified by the beginning of August 2007.
The judges' decision will be final.

- A selection of shortlisted essays will be published in an
anthology.

- Winning essays will also be published on the Lancet website
and their authors invited to take part in Forum 11 with all
expenses paid.

Staff members of the Global Forum or of the Lancet or their
immediate families are ineligible to enter the competition, as
are authors of commended and winning entries from 2006.

For full details and submission of entries, see:
http://www.globalforumhealth.org

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