The Global Health Network, an international programme that helps health workers and researchers around the world to lead their own research, has joined the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.
Founded and led by Professor Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health Research, the Global Health Network is a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research Information Sharing, E-learning, and Capacity Development. It connects a community of more than one million members – researchers, nurses, doctors, laboratory scientists and community health workers – through free training, practical research tools and knowledge hubs that share methods and evidence across diseases, disciplines and borders. Regional hubs in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean support research led by the people and institutions closest to the health challenges they study.
Much of the world's burden of disease falls on communities where the evidence needed to guide care is thinnest. The Global Health Network works to close that gap by enabling high-quality studies in the places where data are lacking – so that research happens where it is needed, is led locally, and benefits the communities who take part.
Read the full story on the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences website.