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The scientific principles that the document proposes for use in evaluation of environmental health risks in children will help the health sector, researchers, and policy makers to protect children of all ages, through improved risk assessments, appropriate interventions, and focused research, to become healthy adults.

Variations in heart rate patterns provide information on how the nervous system functions in adults and children. Obstetricians have long considered heart rate patterns to be important indicators of fetal well-being during the prenatal period as well as in labor and delivery.

On November 2006 CHNRI organized a Satellite session on systematic priority setting approach in child health research investments at the 10th annual meeting of Global Forum for Health Research at Cairo. Eight renowned child health researchers presented the preliminary findings of their work on priority setting on behalf of their respective teams.

The presenters in the session said the number of possible avenues in health research is growing continuously and the proposals for research funding far exceed the potential of the countries to fund them. This is especially the case in developing countries where health needs are large and health research budgets are small.

JOHANNESBURG/GENEVA -- Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most dangerous region in the world for a baby to be born – with 1.16 million babies dying each year in the first 28 days of life – but six low-income African countries, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Madagascar, Malawi, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, have made significant progress in reducing deaths among newborn babies, according to a new report published today.

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a $46 million award to the nonprofit (PATH) to improve nutrition of infants and young children in developing nations by promoting breastfeeding, complementary feeding practices and maternal nutrition.

Adopting the strengths of the previous approaches to priority setting in health research, CHNRI has developed a new model for priority setting.

A regional profile of research priorities and role players.

The objective of the Project was to rapidly increase levels of exclusive breastfeeding at a broad scale in Madagascar. A community level behavior change strategy model previously developed and successfully used in highland areas of the country was streamlined and adapted for use in three districts of the coastal provinces of Tulear and Mahajanga, covering a total population of 1.4 million.

A Regional Latin American agenda for applied health and nutrition research based on current nutritional problems and programs and existing scientific research capacity in the region
Published by Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) 2006