The 6th Annual Sierra Leone Health and Biomedical Research Symposium will be held from 19 to 21 March 2014 at the Hill Valley Hotel, Signal in Freetown. The meeting will be multidisciplinary and will bring together researchers from local and international agencies and Institutions to present and discuss research, with a special focus on research for health in Sierra Leone. The theme is: Health of the Sierra Leonean Child.
6th Annual Research Symposium: “Health of the Sierra Leonean Child”Hill Valley Hotel, Signal Hill, Freetown, Sierra Leone March 19-21, 2014The Sierra Leone Health and Biomedical Research Group (HBIOMED-SL) was formed as a result of a meeting entitled "Research Day" held on March 21, 2009 at the Conference Hall of the Faculty of Nursing, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS), University of Sierra Leone (USL).The 6th Annual Sierra Leone Health and Biomedical Research Symposium will be held from 19 to 21 March 2014 at the Hill Valley Hotel, Signal in Freetown. The meeting will be multidisciplinary and will bring together researchers from local and international agencies and Institutions to present and discuss research, with a special focus on research for health in Sierra Leone. The theme is: Health of the Sierra Leonean Child. The symposium will involve scientific presentations as well as poster sessions, and include targeted discussions to identify research priorities and promote the establishment of collaborations among researchers. It is anticipated that this format will represent a forum for the exchange of ideas relating to the development of a research for health agenda for Sierra Leone.Meeting Details:Day 1 (March 19thth, 2014): Pre-conference Workshop “Abridged Proposal Development and Presentation”.Days 2 & 3 (March 20- 21, 2014): Scientific Sessions1) Environmental Health affecting children: including childhood sanitation, childhood cholera, safe drinking water for children, diarrheal diseases affecting children, school health, hand washing and communicable diseases in children etc.2) Maternal and Child Health: including Child nutrition and malnutrition, anaemia in children, vaccine preventable diseases in children, child reproductive health etc.3) Health Systems: including health economics, health care financing, human resources for health, governance, equity, access, management of health systems4) Infectious Diseases: including childhood malaria, Lassa fever in children, childhood tuberculosis, pneumonia in children, HIV/AIDS in children, neglected tropical diseases affecting children etc.5) Non-communicable Diseases: including mental health affecting children, childhood cancer, cardiovascular diseases in children, kidney diseases in children, childhood hypertension, childhood diabetes, stroke in children, childhood epilepsy, neurological diseases in children etc. To read the summary of last year's report, click here.