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ZCHRD to attend the PNHRS Convergence Planning Workshop

Dr. Teresita G. Montaño, ZCHRD Director will participate in the PNHRS Convergence Planning Workshop on July 17-19, 2014 at the Taal Vista, in Tagaytay City.

The convention will serve as an avenue to convene the members of the PNHRS steering committe, six PNHRS technical working committees, which Dr. Montaño is a member of the Resource Mobilization Committee, and selected Regional Health Research and Development Consortia (RHRDCs) to come up with a 3-year plan (2015-2017) starting with the last quarter of 2014.

With the passage of Republic Act No.10532 or the Philippine National Health Research System Act of 2013 as well as its Implementing Rules and Regulations, this Activity is the first of its kind.

ZCHRD to attend the 8th PNHRS Week Celebration in Cebu.

The theme for this year’s convergence of researchers for Health, Science & Technology is “Research and Innovation in Health for Disaster and Emergency Health Management”, which will be held at the Radisson Blue Hotel, Cebu City on August 12-14, 2014.

Hosted by the Central Visayas Consortium for Health Research & Development (CVHRD), the PNHRS Week Celebration provides a platform for the different stakeholders in health research 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.

Several activities will be held throughout the 3-day celebration to include an inter-regional oral paper presentation and poster exhibit contest of completed research papers for professionals and students; inter-regional consortium poster presentation contest; meeting of consortia chairs, heads of institutions, and researchers, and a fellow ship night, which will showcase cultural cluster presentations.

Over 600 participants are expected to join and participate in the said event

A First in the province, ZCHRD to conduct Basic Ethics Review Training in Zamboanga del Norte

The Philippine Health Research Ethics Board (PHREB) and the Zamboanga Consortium for Health Research & Development (ZCHRD) will conduct a 2-day training on the Basics of Ethics Review in Research

A first of its kind to be conducted in Zamboanga del Norte, the training aims to dialogue and guide participants re moral dimensions of research and help them do and/or review ethical research.

It specifically aims to sensitize them on the basic concepts, apply these concepts to avoid, recognize, correct issues, describe the different controls for ethics in research, focusing on Institutional, Research Ethics Committee and the PHREB, and to motivate participants to do and advocate quality ethical research.

30 Participants from the Andres Bonifacio College, Philippine Advent College, Dipolog City Institute of Technology, Jose Rizal Memorial State University, and the Dipolog Medical Center College Foundation, Inc. are expected to participate in the training.

It will be held at the D’ Hotels & Suites in Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte on 7-8 May 2014 with Dr. Angeles T. Alora, Dr. Evangeline O. Santos, Dr. Gloria G. Florendo, and Prof. Florence A. Alcazar as the guest speakers.