CHNRI has taken the initiative to set research priorities in the field of child health and nutrition, and align research endeavor to local relevance and need. CHNRI aims at increasing the level of communication and discussion amongst personnel working towards furthering research on child health and nutrition, such as researchers, policymakers, donors, healthcare providers and non-governmental organizations.

Child Health and Nutrition Knowledge Network (CHNKN) is a novel initiative to achieve these objectives. This knowledge network will assist in bringing together scientists and implementing bodies to discuss the current evidence and future requirements for global, regional and national child health and nutrition. CHNKN also aims at assisting young researchers to interact with established and senior researchers and peers from their region and beyond.

Based on their published work, CHNRI invites researchers, clinicians and program managers to join the Child Health and Nutrition Knowledge Network (CHNKN) for furthering research priority setting, communication and capacity building, especially in developing countries. The network envisages collecting, collating and disseminating available information and knowledge to researchers, health practitioners and health functionaries working in different parts of the world. It plans to develop interest groups within the network by assembling technical experts who share common areas of interest.

The members of the CHNKN shall play critical role in stimulating discussion among the network community, contributing technically to analyzing and disseminating relevant knowledge and identifying gaps in the clinical and public health relevant issues that need further research.

Interaction among CHNKN members will be intellectually stimulating, will cross fertilize ideas, and give rise to innovations and generate large number of clinical and operational research questions. We expect CHNKN to stimulate the new generation researchers particularly in low and middle-income countries to imbibe the spirit of research in healthcare.

For this CHNRI has launched the CHNKN Discussion Forum, which is now active on the CHNRI website (http://www.chnri.org/forum_chnri.php)  

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