Young Voices in Research for Health 2007 
2007. 143 pages. ISBN 978-2-940401-00-0
This compilation presents the winning essays from the 2007 Young Voices in Research for Health competition, which has been jointly sponsored by the Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet.
Entries were invited from young professionals working on or interested in the broad spectrum of research for health. The theme was:
Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing countries.
Here is a sampling of their ideas:
"There needs to be more support for research done by researchers and research networks of developing countries themselves under their own leadership and control."
"It is now time to attack the epidemic of AIDS with the passionate intensity and singleness of purpose that we have historically reserved only for war."
"Let each one of us be the access. First and foremost, let us be the solution."
Table of Contents
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Introduction in English |
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Introduction en français |
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Introducción en español |
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Introdução em portugues |
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Introduction in Chinese |
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Note on the '10/90 Gap' |
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Of patents and patients
Seye Abimbola, Nigeria
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Gospel from the ghetto: how will your notes help us?
Alisha Apale, Canada |
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Graying of the global South: claiming a right to age with dignity
Julio Armas, Cuba |
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Access to health information in developing countries: challenges and the way forward
Mildred Asiimwe, Uganda |
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Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing countries Benjamin Terrycarson Baba, Nigeria |
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Research: making the world more inequitable?
Insights from the eyes of a novice
Sarah Barkley, Canada |
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The other ‘10/90 gap’: lessons from noncommunicable disease research Rajaie Batniji, USA |
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A diamond in the rough: thoughts on million-dollar biomedical malaria research in Mali
Amy Baughman, USA |
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The Geneva Project
Michael M. Callaghan, Canada |
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Delivery in Shanghai – demands from, and supplies to, vulnerable rural immigrant women
Chen Mengru, People’s Republic of China |
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The real ‘10/90 gap’
Andrew Deonarine, Canada |
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Health research in developing countries: challenges and possible solutions for its improvement
Anoop Dhamangaonkar, India |
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Forging cultural links into health research: the ‘C-A-R-E’ model
Ahizechukwu Eke , Nigeria |
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Mountains, monsoons and modern medicine: barriers to health-care research and access in Himalayan India
Emily Esmaili, USA |
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Health access inequities in post-communist China
Dashiell Gantner, Australia |
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Rural doctors, evidence-based medicine: the dilemma of best research evidence
Asieh Golozar, Islamic Republic of Iran |
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Equitable access to research capacity as a tool for health
Amy Gray, Australia |
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Research: swimming against the current of the Amazon
Matthew Griffith, USA |
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Pain relief: equitable access for children
Hanna Guimaraes, Portugal |
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Pedagogy of the researched: inequity as an instrument for poor global health
Amitha Kalaichandran, Canada |
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The International Medical Journal?
Farrah Mateen, Canada |
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Demystifying science in the developing world: how can scientists be agents of change?
Leah Mwai, Kenya |
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Lessons from Caio: community-implemented health research
Elisa Nabel, USA |
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Challenges for health research in developing countries: stereotypes and cultural issues
Eunice Ndirangu, Kenya |
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The fever at the bottom of the pyramid: towards private sector and market-oriented solutions for the ‘10/90 gap’
Pin-Quan Ng, Singapore |
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Closing the evidence gap for public health interventions in developing countries
Ziad Obermeyer, USA |
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Access to public health centres for the common people in a developing country: a research challenge
Asmar Osman, Bangladesh |
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Can the ‘North’ learn from developing countries: question or affirmation?
Denise Nacif Pimenta, Brazil |
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I also have a dream: a young doctor’s thoughts on health research in
developing countries
Vesper Fe Marie Ramos, Philippines |
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‘For the future, for tomorrow’: evidence-based research in food security interventions
Laura Sikstrom, Canada |
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Equitable access to maternal health: the role of social science research in developing countries
Kingsley Nna-nna Ukwaja, Nigeria |
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What would Wilberforce think? Two hundred years on and the ‘abolished’ slave trade rages on unnoticed
Rachel Wake, United Kingdom |
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Research is power
Sarah Walpole, United Kingdom |
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A novel economic approach to solving the ‘10/90 gap’
Russell Walther, USA |
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Mobilizing the intellectual capital of developing nations
Blessing Wazara, Zimbabwe |
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Health looks better on paper
Yohann White, Jamaica |
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The face of equitable access: going beyond health to life for all
Lee Yung Wong, Malaysia |
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Understanding the North Korean perspective: a unique role of research in improving humanitarian collaboration
Eugene Yim, USA |
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Health from the eyes of a citizen
Gelza Mae Almario Zabat, Philippines |
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Where have all the barefoot doctors gone in pursuing a more equitable new health-care system in China?
Zhang Lingling, People’s Republic of China |
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Young Voices in Research for Health: Winners of the Forum 10 essay competition for the under-30s
2006. 120 pages. ISBN 2-940286-45-0
The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet are pleased to publish these winning and shortlisted essays from their first jointly sponsored essay competition, held in occasion of Forum 10, the 2006 annual meeting of the Global Forum in Cairo.
Entries were invited from young professionals working in or interested in the broad spectrum of health research pertaining to the overall theme of Forum 10: combating disease and promoting health.
Four winners from Bangladesh, Ghana, Mexico and the USA joined participants at Forum 10.
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