November 27, 2012: The British-Pakistan Foundation held a Roadshow on November 16th, 2012, to raise awareness within the UK Pakistani Diaspora about the ‘third sector’ activity in Pakistan in terms of civil society contribution towards the development agenda in Pakistan and to present successful health sector examples to the diasporas....
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November 14, 2012: The Summit on the Global Agenda is an annual global brainstorming that brings together members of the World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils. In its fifth session this year, over 700 expert members of the Network of Global Agenda gathered at the Summit to address...
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November 14, 2012: The paper titled “How to achieve international action on falsified and substandard medicines” published today (November 14th, 2012) in the British Medical Journal calls for a treaty on falsified medicine. Amir Attaran, Associate Professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at the University of Ottawa was...
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Attaran A, Barry D, Basheer S, Bate R, Benton D, Chauvin J, Garrett L, Kickbusch I, Kohler JC, Midha K, Newton PN, Nishtar S, Orhii P, McKee M.
How to achieve international action on falsified and substandard medicines. BMJ. 2012 Nov 13;345:e7381. doi:...
November 12, 2012: The
World Economic Forum on India 2012 was held from November 7-8, 2012 in New Delhi where leaders were invited to share their ideas on India’s development. One of the sessions “Health Collaboration as a Bridge”, looked at nurturing cross-border relationship through health and building...
November 11, 2012: Heartfile and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) jointly hosted a Satellite event on the occasion of the 2nd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Beijing on November 3, 2012 at the Beijing International Conference Centre. The event was organized as a consultation, with the purpose of soliciting peer...
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November 11, 2012: The Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research was held from October 31
st till November 3
rd, 2012 in Beijing which was attended by over 1,700 representatives from more than 100 countries and 760 institutions. The final Plenary on
Post-2015 development goals: Framing the issues, prioritizing health...
November 06, 2012: A pre-conference for Emerging Health Systems Research for Universal Health Coverage was held in School of Public Health, Peiking University, Beijing on 29-30 October 2012. Dr. Faraz Khalid from Heartfile was one of the young voices who presented findings of his literature review on "Health Equity Fund:...
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Published in The News International on November 05, 2012:
The concept of development, through which governments view social policy in environments where capitalism is the mode of social organisation, may be up for a major rethink, globally. This year, policy signals at agenda-setting global convening and major publications seem to be...
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November 05, 2012: Our president, Dr. Sania Nishtar recently published her views on Development and how Pakistan fits into the post-2015, Millennium Development Goals agenda. Her article has been published in the
Huffington Post on October 31
st, 2012 and in
The News on November 5,...
