No. 2, Year 4
Second Quarter 2006

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Canada and CICAD Join Research Initiative

Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is partnering this summer with CICAD by hosting a two-month training program, aimed at building drug-related research capacity in Latin America.  The Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto is also collaborating.  This initiative is supported by Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAIT). 

Ten academic health professionals representing 10 universities and seven countries are sharing their knowledge and experience in the program entitled International Research Capacity-Building Program for Health and Related Professionals to Study Drug Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.  An extensive curriculum package, developed by CICAD and piloted at the University of Alberta’s School of Nursing, is serving as a foundation for three research projects in Latin America during the coming year.  Dr. Louis Gliksman (Research - SPHP) and Akwatu Khenti (PEHP - International Health Programs) are CAMH co-chairs along with Dr. Gloria Wright from CICAD.

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