Thematic Breakout Session: Health

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Thematic Breakout Session Health Biomedical
Data Metadata

• Report by
• Bill Anderson

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• Session Chair
• ltSpeakers and titles of their presentationsgt
• Number of attendees 12

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What are some of the most promising existing
models or mechanisms for providing such access?
Questions

• To built nets to integrate, to facilitate the
  collaboration and to faster the contacts among
  institutions.
• To promote courses and events to discuss policies
  and rules to the open and permanent access of
  data base information
• To create financial support towards the
  objectives for this new policy
• To promote a intensive program to improve the
  discussion on these matters to better inform the
  responsible for the museums on the advantages of
  this new policy that could be built to serve all
  institutions
• To implement courses to create professionals able
  to use the new technologies on this matters
• Try to sensibilize politicians about all
  difficulties the restrictive laws are causing in
  scientific issues

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What are some potential realistic cooperative
activities in Latin America to help address the
challenges and barriers that have been identified?

• 1. Ecosystems, climate health projects partner
  GEOSS
• Demonstration project linking PAHO public health
  indexes with climate indexes (e.g., Dengue fever
  and temperature)
• Activities would include, for example
• bibliography of LA papers on dengue fever
• Monitoring disease vector (transmission)
  activity
• use legacy and new data types
• Digitize old climate health records and
  make available
• Generate scenarios for interventions (local,
  national, regional)
• Write a proposal
• Stakeholders OTCA, FIOCRUZ, PAHO, INPE, NOAA
• Coordinators Lais Costa (FIOCRUZ), Janette,
  Aguirre (OTCA)

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What are some potential realistic cooperative
activities in Latin America to help address the
challenges and barriers that have been identified?

• 2. Telehealth University network LA
• Based on national telehealth programs of
  Brazil and Mexico
• Based on telehealth initiatives in Columbia,
  Ecuador, Chile
• Orgs REDClara, RNP, CENTEC, CEDIA,
  FUNDATEL, RENATA, FIOCRUZ, OTCA, PAHO, IDB, WB
• Practical steps
• form working group on telehealth under REDClara
• networking institutions
• video conference sessions
• each LA country submit member proposal
  (strengthening national and local capacity)
• write a final proposal
• Coordinators Luiz Ary Messina, Carlos
  Castillo-Salgado
• Start date 1 June 2007 End date 30 August 2007

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What are some potential realistic cooperative
activities in Latin America to help address the
challenges and barriers that have been identified?

• 3. Capacity building and training in health
  biomedical data
• internships with young professionals,
  sabbaticals with experienced professionals
  (International, interdisciplinary sabbaticals)
• Link virtual campuses in Latin America
• List available online programs on health and
  environment

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Recommendation

• National Academies recommend support for the
  sustainability of fundamental initiatives, such
  as REDClara
• Financial support from the EU has increased.
• Help build political support and provide advice
  for these kinds of sustainable activities
• Can the NA help build relations with the private
  sector?

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How can such new or improved initiatives
specifically be implemented and who should be
involved?

• HOW?

• WHO?

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Any final comments or thoughts