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"We want to see how we can work in this collaborative way for this transition for the government of Haiti to be more and more responsible for these services that should be under the responsibility of government, such as health and education and security."

Bibeau visits Haiti with focus on improving health, empowering women International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is travelling to Haiti today to begin a three-day trip focusing on improving health and empowering women in the disaster-plagued, impoverished nation.

Researchers at Stanford University tested the effects on mice, read more here:

Are cancer vaccines the future of treatment? Despite first making waves in the late 19th century, cancer vaccines are now emerging as the treatment of the future.

As influenza deaths increase, we are forgetting how serious the flu can be, read more here:

Monitor children with the flu closely: Waterloo Region public health ‘None of us completely immune’ from serious flu complications

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-research-confirms-link-between-flu-and-heart-attack

U of T research confirms link between flu and heart attack Chances of a heart attack are increased six-fold during the first seven days after detection of laboratory-confirmed influenza infection, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Toronto.

https://www.devex.com/news/china-emerges-as-a-serious-player-in-humanitarian-aid-90974

China emerges as a serious player in humanitarian aid While official government data remains limited, two new data sets and reports offer a clearer picture of where China is heading as a humanitarian aid donor. The picture they paint is of a country most keen to help friends and allies.

"The U.S. global health security agenda is running out of options, Abraaj pushes back against allegations of misused health funds, and the U.S. State Department assesses the first months of anti-abortion policy"

Global health security's ticking clock, 'Global gag rule' at 6 months and Abraaj: this week in development The U.S. global health security agenda is running out of options, Abraaj pushes back against allegations of misused health funds, and the U.S. State Department assesses the first months of anti-abortion policy. This week in development.

"China has done a very strong job of addressing health inequality and poverty over the past decades. What we'd like to see is the innovation of China not only continues to help with all the domestic things, but also benefits other developing countries," Bill Gates

China's growing innovation capacity to play bigger role in global health: Bill Gates - Xinhua | English.news.cn BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- China was once a recipient of development aid, but now it is a major financial and technology contributor to global health.

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"In 2017, U of T was named one of Canada’s greenest employers – for the fourth time."

U of T joins coalition of leading universities driving climate action The University of Toronto is joining 12 other leading research universities in North America in a coalition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on their own campuses and in their communities.

"To address deficits in managerial skills, the WHO Secretariat has entered into an agreement with two partner agencies to train their managers, starting with country representatives."

Internal 'dysfunction' poses threats to WHO mission WHO has much to fix internally, based on a report by its ombudsman and the staff association during the executive board sessions held in Geneva last month.

Sanofi is rejecting refunds for used vaccines, read more here:

Initial Philippines Probe Finds ‘Causal Association’ Between Deaths, Sanofi Dengue Vaccine The Philippines said Sanofi‘s dengue vaccine may have caused the deaths of at least three children, months after the French drugmaker said its shot could worsen symptoms of the debilitating disease in some cases.

"The continuous improvement needs to be informed by specific research projects (methodological projects) that focus on testing different approaches to improve trials."

Improving global health clinical trials – where to begin? - On Medicine In the UK, the top three priorities in research methodologies for clinical trials have been identified as boosting recruitment, retention of participants and choosing outcomes to collect. But are these priorities the same in the rest of the world? In an effort to explore this, research published tod...