Research and Advocacy

February 26, 2005 by Research Ed

What's New?

 Out of Practice: The challenges facing refugee doctors in the UK In this Advocacy feature, Aska Leslie takes a look at another perspective of the ‘brain drain:’ the problems faced by doctors who have been forced to flee their home and their jobs to seek asylum in the UK and their struggle for professional recognition…and employment.


Publication: The 2006 Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences Looking for funding for your global health research or overseas placements? This includes nearly 500 funding opportunities related to biomedical and behavioral sciences, with a special emphasis on researchers in the developing world and their collaborators.

Medicine, Conflict and Survival are looking for new writers to contribute to the journal, through articles, book reviews or through being part of the peer review process. It is a quarterly journal published by Taylor Francis.

Medicine, Conflict and Survival is a quarterly international journal published by Taylor Francis aimed at health professionals and peace researchers.

They are also interested to involve postgraduates in the organisation of the journal and the management committee.

View Medicine, Conflict and Survival. Contact info@almamata.net for more details.

Organisation Database: Research & Advocacy

The Disease Control Priorities Project: The global picture This month we profile the DCPP, an international body documenting the global disease burden country by country to create a resource for international health policy. A good starting point for international health research.

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Campaigns

Take action to stop the killer in the kitchen Indoor air pollution, caused by burning solid fuels such as wood and charcoal for cooking, claims more victims each year than malaria. It is the fourth greatest risk to death and disease in developing countries according to the WHO, and yet the international community is doing little to tackle the problem. Practical Action has launched a campaign calling for urgent action to tackle the killer in the kitchen. For more information, and to find out how you can take action.

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Control Arms: will governments face up to their responsibilities? Lack of controls on the arms trade is fuelling conflict, poverty and human rights abuses worldwide. With the UN Review Conference of Small Arms in June, the Control Arms campaign is asking governments to toughen up controls on the arms trade. Read our latest profile to find out more about this organisation and to add your face to the campaign.

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Journals Library

In our Journals Library, we document journals publishing international health research to give you a starting point to your research. Most of the sources are open access.

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Advice to Authors

 

go to In "Writing and Publishing Articles" Jack Piachaud gives clear advice to those thinking of publishing their work.

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Research Forum & Working Papers

Submit your own research for peer-review in the Alma Mata Journal of Global Health. Or seek research advice and partners in our Research Forum.

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Special Features

go to A closer look at current campaigns and burning issues relating to international health research. In his research feature, Tom Poyser talks to Professor Peter Winstanley, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, on the challenges of bringing drugs to the global market.

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