Global Forum for Health
Research Foundation Meeting Promoted by
the WHO and Major Donors of the World
My last Intervention in the Final Plenary
Session of Forum 5 in Favor of a Global Health Research Initiative on Terrorism
Causes and Prevention, and of a Global Human Social Research Project.
Rodolfo Stusser, researcher of a health center at
I congratulate the two presentations about genomics and the three ones
on the health research collaboration strategies and actions post-Bangkok, and
want to state a personal concern about the global strategy of health research.
Unfortunately, with the recent fanatic terrorist attack to USA, I have
to say with sorrow that the world has become aware with these highest levels of
violent behaviors, that if are not investigated their causes and scientifically
prevented, they could make impossible the future use and enjoyment in the
practice of the wonderful results heard this morning here from the biomedical
model through the Human Genome Project.
In my opinion, it seems necessary to find or create the structures and
alliances in the UN organizations, COHRED, GFHR, World Bank, and many other
institutions, not only in WHO, to approach with the socio-health model the
great scientific challenges in matters of social, psychological,
criminological, economical, and even public political problems that centuries
ago created the poor infrastructure in most countries, for the opening first,
of a social and economical progressive gap between the North and the South, and
afterwards, of the 10/90 gap in health research investments detected and
attacked complementarily by the WHO, COHRED, GFHR, World Bank, and other
institutions in the last decade.
Something is still lacking more specifically in the health research
strategy of the world in this 21-century to be able to solve the global health
problems.
For me is something that has been requested since the 1990s from several
health authorities in USA and other countries, as counterpart of the Human Genome Project: the
design and carry out of a Global Project well-supported too, on basic Human
Development, Public Health, Epidemiology, Behavior, Clinical Medicine, and
Nursing.
If this strategic need is not fulfilled, it is possible that some of us could
not see the full applications in the clinical practice and in the health of the
populations of the wonderful Genome Project Results!
Thank you Dr. Chunharas.