Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI)
Global Health Leadership Award (GHLA)
Argentinean Tobacco Research Program
This project is funded by Teasdale-Corti Global Health Leadership Award that is sponsored by the Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI) and collaborating partners. The purpose of this award is to support the career progression of emerging leaders in health system or research institutions in LMICs by building individual and institutional capacity to conduct strategic applied health research that addresses pressing health system and policy issues in the candidate’s country or region. The Argentinean Tobacco Research Program, directed by Dr Raúl Mejía has been selected with this award.
The goal of the program is to train a new generation of researchers and policy leaders not only in tobacco control but also in global health problems. This program will also integrate local institutions with different academic expertise and from different socioeconomic status. The multidisciplinary perspective of this program will inform the scientific skills of future generations of researchers. The ultimate objective of this program is to assist the government in the implementation of the “Technical Package for Tobacco Control” in Argentina to reduce the prevalence cigarette smoking by 5% in 2015.
This 18-month program will develop research capacity through course work in research methods and through a mentored research experience in an area related to tobacco use conducted within a culture of mentorship trainees will be exposed to a broad variety of researchers from the participant institutions such as CEDES, Program of General Intern Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, ICTER, Jujuy, and the University of California San Francisco.
Participants of this mentored course will select their course work from a list that will provide them with a strong didactic and methodological background in global health research and advocacy. After this training, scholars will be required to conduct a supervised study in a smoking area in Argentina.
Participants will be recruited from a variety of fields related with tobacco or its consequences.
Bases de la convocatoria:
> Descargar Convocatoria CICTA 2008: click aquí
> Descargar Apéndice 1 de la Convocatoria: click aquí
> Descargar Apéndice 2 de la Convocatoria: click aquí
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Intership Program CEDES-York University (2006-2008)
This program is jointly by CEDES and York University. Followed by an agreement between the two institutions, students from the University of York complete a fellowship at the Health, Economy and Society Department at CEDES where they received the academia support of CEDES’s researches.
Fellows:
> Flavio Genovese, undergraduate student, Anthropology and Spanish Departments, York University, Toronto, Canada (may-august, 2008).
> Christopher Katsarov, undergraduate student, International Development and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, de la York University, Toronto, Canada (mayo-august, 2007).
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Intership Program CEDES-National Academy of Medicine (2004-2009)
This program is organized jointly by CEDES and CIE (Centre of Epidemiological Studies, National Academy of Medicine) as part of a cooperation agreement between both institutions signed in 2004.
Fellows:
> Melissa Rosenstein, advanced medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, did an internship at Health, Economy and Society Department of CEDES between January and July 2006. She worked with data from the project “Maternal mortality and non-institutional deaths among fertile-age women in Argentina”. In addition, she participated in a PAHO and CDC project to review and analyze the maternal mortality studies done with RAMOS methodology in Latin America.
> Alexandra Kossowski, a Canadian physician, did an internship at Health, Economy and Society Department of CEDES between November and December 2005. She studied the current situation of maternal mortality in Argentina, specifically the vigilance of maternal deaths in six Argentine provinces: Chaco, Formosa, Mendoza, San Luis, Tucumán and Catamarca. During her stay at CEDES she wrote a paper about the vigilance of maternal mortality in Argentina and the most appropriate methodology for implementing vigilance actions in the country.
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Workshops on sexual and reproductive health, gender violence and contraception
> Workshops on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Gender Violence, and Contraception for the Security Forces of the Province of Buenos Aires.
The Health, Economy and Society Department of CEDES has been called by The Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires in order to design, coordinate, and implement workshops on sexual and reproductive health, gender violence, and contraception with first-year students of the police career. These activities have been carried out during 2005 within the framework of the project “Institutional Strengthening of the Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires on Population and Development, Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Family Violence, and Minority”, funded and assisted by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
This project is carried out within the context of a major process of modernization and professionalization of the police force, geared to the construction of efficient and democratic institutions committed with the promotion and respect of human rights.
> Reproductive health and women’s rights: training workshops with women of poor urban sectors.
This activity has been carried out during 2004 and 2005 with adult and adolescent women in poor urban sectors of Pilar. The aim of this workshop has been provided them with the necessary tools and knowledge to get to know their body, learn to take care of it and identify its messages and alarm signals, be aware of their rights and be able to improve their problem solving capacity and increase their possibility to access and demand health care services.
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Masters in Social Sciences and Health
The Masters in Social Sciences and Health, organized jointly by CEDES and the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Argentina), was created in 1997. The main objective of this multidisciplinary program is to provide training in the management of social science theory, methodology and empirical findings in order to approach problems in the health/illness field. The program targets public officials in health and social security areas; social scientists; health care providers; social workers and psychologists as well as fellows and young researchers in social science interested in pursuing a Ph.D.
Master´s Program in Social Science and Health will not start its activities in 2008.
For further information, see: Activities > Training Program> Postgraduate Program
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Training Program on Gender and Health Sector Reform
Since 1998, the Department has been involved in the international initiative “Transforming health care systems: gender and rights in reproductive health” which trains administrators and decision makers, members of non-governmental organizations, and providers of sexual and reproductive health services. This project was developed together with the World Health Organization, the School of Public Health at Harvard University and the Women’s Health Project of the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa). A training manual on gender and health, sexual and reproductive rights, social dterminants of health, health systems and policies, and health research was published in English and Spanish.
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Regional Program on Social Research, Training and Technical Assistance in Reproductive Health and Sexuality
The program aims to promote the development of social research in reproductive health and sexuality in some Latin American countries through training workshops and technical assistance for research teams, professionals and health care providers.
Between 1994 and 2001 the program received support from the Ford Foundation to carry out activities in Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia and Peru.
The workshops are oriented to training professionals working in the social and medical sciences. Topics include: gender and health, sexual and reproductive rights, ethical and socio-cultural aspects of health and illness, human reproduction, quantitative and qualitative research methodology, and evaluation of health programs.
> Click here to see workshops
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Fellow Program
> This program has been carried out between 1995 and 1997. The fellows took courses on theoretical and methodological aspects related to sexuality and reproductive health during one year. Simultaneously, fellows also participated in research projects. Since 1997, participants of this program have been incorporated into the Masters in Social Sciences and Health, CEDES-FLACSO Argentina. The program has received fifteen students from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.
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