Revitalizing Health for All: A Call for Expressions of Interest to Participate in New Research and Research Training in Comprehensive Primary Health Care The Globalization and Health Equity Research Unit at the Institute of Population Health - University of Ottawa English version: http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/electronic%20library/Call%20for%20Expressions%20of%20Interest%20CPHC.pdf Spanish version: http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/electronic%20library/Solicitud%20de%20declaration%20de%20interes%20APSI.pdf Deadline 31 March 2008 “…..In 2007, an international network of researchers and people involved in building comprehensive primary health care (CPHC) received funding to support research and research capacity-building. This network, associated with the People’s Health Movement, includes individuals in India, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Canada and Australia. By comprehensive primary health care, we mean an approach to health systems organization and services that tries to achieve the following: a. increased equity in access to health care and other services/resources essential to health b. reduced vulnerabilities through changes in community empowerment (capacities) c. reduced exposures to risk through changes in social and environmental determinants of health d. improved participatory mechanisms and political capabilities of marginalized population groups reached by comprehensive primary health care initiatives e. increased community resilience to enable effective responses to promote and protect health f. equitable increase in population health outcomes With funding support from the Canadian Global Health Research Initiative and its ‘Teasdale-Corti’ Research Program, our project goals are to: a. systematically review recent past experiences of comprehensive primary health care from different regions of the world to determine what we know about how it works, what it needs to work and what it has accomplished b. train up to 20 early career primary health care researchers in undertaking new or augmenting existing CPHC research studies, in teams with ‘research users’ (health policy or program planners) and research mentors (experienced CPHC researchers) c. provide financial support to these research teams to undertake their proposed studies d. support the building of regional networks of researchers and research users (including civil society groups) to advance comprehensive primary health care as the basis for health system reform in their own countries e. create a rigorously sound knowledge base on the role of comprehensive primary health care in improving health equity that can be used in the advocacy work of these regional networks Call for Expressions of Interest The project is now seeking applications (‘Expressions of Interest’) from research teams committed to developing important new knowledge and action on comprehensive primary health care. These research teams will come from one of four different areas/regions in which are focusing our overall project work: Region 1: India and South Asia Region 2: Africa Region 3: Latin America Region 4: Indigenous/Aboriginal peoples in Canada and Australia Timeline: 31 March 2008: Deadline for Expressions of Interest September – November 2008: Two week training program (see ‘Proposed Venues and Dates for Regional Training Programs’ at end of this Call for Expressions of Interest) October 2008 – November 2010: New funded research studies September – November 2009: First regional meeting and 3 day Training Program September – November 2010: Second regional meeting Sometime in 2011: A global meeting on overall project results (to be determined, based on obtaining new funding Contact Information: Corinne Packer, Researcher, PhD - Institute of Population Health - University of Ottawa Email: cpacker@uottawa.ca - tel: (613) 562-5800 ext. 2053 - fax: (613) 562-5659 1 Stewart Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5