Welcome to The Global Health Network news update Spring 2015. Find out about the highlights on the network and discover some of the new, exciting tools and sites available to enhance your health research.
Access free, high-quality eLearning courses and build your professional profile with the Professional Development Scheme at the ‘Global Health Training Centre’
The Global Health Network’s popular eLearning and Professional Membership Scheme (PMS), previously found within Global Health Trials, has been migrated into one, centralised location called the ‘Global Health Training Centre’. You can continue to take the freely available eLearning courses to build and enhance your professional profile here.
Access a growing number of short and modular, peer reviewed courses that include:
- How to conduct GCP inspections / Audits at the Clinical Investigator Site
- The Retrospective Treatment Outcome Study for Traditional Medicine
- New modular course: ‘Essential Elements of Ethics’
New sites within the network for Autism, Malaria and Ebola
The Global Health Network continues to grow the community with new sites going live:
Global Research in Autism and Neurodevelopment (GRAND) is an online, worldwide community enabling people working on autism and neurodevelopmental disorders to share knowledge. Discover more about GRAND here.
The Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) is a scientifically independent, multi-disciplinary platform generating innovative tools and reliable evidence to inform the malaria community on the factors affecting the efficacy of antimalarial medicines. Find out more about WWARN here.
Ebola Clinical Trials is a free resource established to enable researchers to exchange information, methods and resources about clinical trials of interventions for Ebolavirus disease. Read more about Ebola Clinical Trials here.
Winner of the Global Health Nurses competition 2014-15
Patience Ngina Ndonye (pictured) from Kenya, 2014-15 winner of the nurses competition, will be attending the annual 2015 Royal College of Nursing International Nursing Research Conference in Nottingham, UK. Find out more here.
Designing a Smartphone Dongle to Diagnose Infectious Disease
Chris Sanders, of the International Diagnostics Centre, interviews Professor Sam Sia (pictured) who has been developing small Point-of-care (POC) devices that can be used with smartphones to test for HIV and syphilis. Read the full article here.
INTERGROWTH-21ST New Global Standards available
Global standards for newborn birth weight, length, and head circumference are now available to utilise. Practitioners can download and use these versions of the chart freely here.
Need a research site? Use SiteFinder
Explore over 130 global research sites on SiteFinder and match them to your research study requirements. Register your study or research site here to take part.
Update your profile, get involved in discussions and post a blog
Want to get more from the network? If you have not yet already why not try the following:
- Add your image to your profile
- Write a brief biography
- Start writing a blog post or ask a question in the community sections of membersites
Planning a study? Use the ProcessMap
Step-by-step guidance for planning successful global health research projects. Find out more here.
More from the network
New to The Global Health Network? View the introductory video here.
Explore many more informative video presentations in the seminar series here.
Read what other users say about The Global Health Network in the feedback section and see how their research projects have benefitted from taking part. Read more here.
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The Global Health Network 2015