7th PNHRS Week
On August 7-9, 2013, the 7th Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS) Week will be held at the Plaza del Norte Hotel and Convention Center, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte with the theme “People at the Center of Health and Health Research.”
Hosted by the Region 1 Health Research and Development Consortium, the PNHRS Week celebration will provide a platform for the different stakeholders in health R&D to interact, to learn from each other, to share information and experiences, to voice their concerns, to contribute research-based solutions to health problems, among other things.
Expected to grace the three-day celebration were Provincial Governor Maria Imelda Josefa R. Marcos, Secretary Mario G. Montejo of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Secretary Enrique T. Ona of the Department of Health (DOH).
Around 500 participants from all the 17 regional health research consortia are expected to participate in the event. For more information, please contact PNHRS secretariat at telephone numbers: (02) 8377534 or (02) 8377537 or visit PNHRS website at http://www.healthresearch.ph/.
PNHRS Week is held annually on the second week of August by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 1309 signed in 2007.
The recent deaths of three government officials due to untested stem cell treatments has bought to light the lack of government oversight on human health research. The numerous stories on potential cures and a vaccine for dengue bring a lot of hope, but also concerns over the safety of these treatments.
The establishment of guidelines and government oversight failsafes on research safety and ethical human health research has finally come to fruition with the passage of Republic Act 10532 or The Philippine National Health Research System Act of 2013 (PNHRS) last June 1.
To help address the issues and challenges facing the Philippine research industry, the first public consultation for the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of PNHRS was held ON June 25 in Davao City.
Stakeholders from different sectors of the academe, the health industry, the public and private sector, different government agencies, local government units and the media were invited to help point out any flaws, inconsistencies or inadequacies in the draft IRR.
Two more public consultations will be held, tomorrow in Iloilo and next in Manila, before a final draft of the IRR would be submitted.
Application for the 5th Asian Heads of Research Councils (ASIAHORCs) Joint Symposium organized by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) is now open.
The ASIAHORCs Joint Symposium will be held on 26 to 28 November 2013 in Bali, Indonesia with the theme: “Food Sciences.” The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has allocated two (2) slots for young researchers to participate in the said symposium whose field of research is on bio resources for food, functional food, bio-processing technology for food, food engineering, and food science policy.
Download the Memorandum from the link below to see the complete details.
http://healthresearch.ph/index.php/downloads/category/69-bills-and-memoranda.html?download=697:memorandum-call-for-applicants-pdf
Health research stakeholders will convene in a series of public consultations on the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the newly signed Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS) Act of 2013 in Davao (June 25), Iloilo (June 26) and Manila (June 28).
The public consultations aim to reach out to the research communities to get their inputs in crafting the IRR for Republic Act 10532. PNHRS core agencies namely, the Department of Science and Technology through the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD), the Department of Health (DOH), Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the University of the Philippines Manila-National Institutes of Health (UPM-NIH) will spearhead the consultations.
The PNHRS Act of 2013 was signed into law by President Benigno S. Aquino III last May 7, 2013. The law seeks to protect and promote the right to health of the people, instill health consciousness among them and improve the quality of life of every Filipino through health research and development initiatives.
