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The Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in Developing Countries

http://www.equityhealthj.com/content/4/1/2

This bookmark links to the paper by Boutayeb and Boutayeb of the Universities of Brunel and Morocco, and discusses the burden of NCDs in developing countries by collecting data from national registries.

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Bookmarked by The Editorial Team on 4 Dec 2011
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Communications Handbook for Clinical Trials: Strategies, tips, and tools to manage controversy, con

http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Pubs/booksReports/comm_handbook.htm

This handbook provides practical guidance to clinical trial staff and research partners on how to anticipate and respond to the special communications challenges posed by the conduct of clinical research. Using context-specific case studies and practical insights culled from actual communications experience in clinical trials from around the world, this essential new resource covers the spectrum of communications planning, activities, and strategies involved in the implementation of a clinical trial. Organized to correspond to the chronological steps involved in conducting research, this guide focuses on the various communications skills that are needed throughout the course of a trial.

Designed to be accessible and relevant to a wide audience, Communications Handbook for Clinical Trials will make your job easier, whether you are a researcher, a study coordinator, or a communications professional. The handbook contains diagnostic tools, sample templates, and materials that research sites can adapt for use in their communications planning and implementation. Communications Handbook for Clinical Trials includes:

Sample communication plans for clinical trials
Communications and crisis-planning templates and checklists
Scenario-planning tools to facilitate planning for the release of trial results
Ideas on delegating communications tasks to reduce demands on key site personnel
Tips and techniques on how to communicate effectively in interviews, in meetings, and with the media
Communications Handbook for Clinical Trials contains more than 40 contributed pieces by researchers and communications experts who share their ideas, lessons learned, and advice based on their experiences with trials in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States, and Europe

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Bookmarked by The Editorial Team on 3 Nov 2010
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Immunology in the Tropics

http://www.muii.org.ug/March2011.html

This is an advanced Immunology course held twice a year (March and September) on site at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda. Our courses of formal lectures from international faculty, journal clubs, revision sessions and practical classes. These courses are suitable for postgraduate students (MSc, PhD), as well as qualified doctors who have an interest in expanding their Immunological knowledge and techniques.

Our March course offers modules on the Evolution of the Immune System, Malaria Immunology and Helminth Immunology. In our September course we offer modules on Fundamental Immunology, TB Immunology and HIV Immunology. Our practical sessions give instruction on ELISA techniques, as well as ELISPOT, real time PCR design and flow cytometry.

Please visit the website for further information, or email mak-uvri.rtp@mrcuganda.org

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Bookmarked by Stephen Cose on 7 Dec 2010
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EpiSurveyor Free Mobile Data Collection

http://www.episurveyor.org/

EpiSurveyor is a web- and mobile- tool to allow organizations to gather research, management, and other data from the field using common mobile phones, and winner of the 2009 Wall Street Journal Award for Technology Innovation in the category of healthcare. It is not limited to health-related data, and is attracting users from a variety of other fields.

As easy as Gmail, free to 99% of users, with 3000 users in 150+ countries worldwide. If you are collecting data using paper and clipboard, you could probably be using EpiSurveyor to do real-time mobile electronic data collection.

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Bookmarked by Joel Selanikio on 14 Jan 2011
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Job opportunity in WWARN

http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/professionalandmanagemen...

Statistician (Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network)

NUFFIELD DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, Centre for Tropical Medicine

Grade 7: Salary £29,099 - £35,788 p.a.

More than 500 million become severely ill with malaria every year and more than 1 million die from the effects of the disease. The Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), working with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will set up a global drug resistance information resource so that more of the right drugs can get to the right people at the right time, and the drugs will last longer. Details can be found on the website at http://www.wwarn.org/.

This exciting post will support the Clinical Module of WWARN, ensuring that the clinical database i) meets the requirement of the clinical team and other stakeholders, ii) works with the database architecture (designed in collaboration with the informatics team), and iii) allows cross-referencing between the Clinical, In Vitro, Molecular and Pharmacological Modules of WWARN. The successful candidate will develop a wide variety of research and analytical tools including but not limited to: clinical trial, meta-analysis and time-series analyses.

You will have a postgraduate qualification in data analysis or statistics (or equivalent work experience), and experience working with database developers. Experience of working with data from countries in Africa, Asia or Latin America is highly desirable.

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Bookmarked by The Editorial Team on 7 Apr 2011
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