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Article: Driving the Global Public Health Research Agenda Forward by Promoting the Participation of Students and New Researchers: Perspectives from Quebec
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
- Author:
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ABSTRACT
Objectives: Current trends suggest a movement towards driving forward a global health research agenda in Canada in order to redress global health research inequalities. In this paper, we explore how to promote the participation of students and new researchers in global health in Quebec. To accomplish this, we undertook a study in order to: 1) document the state of teaching and research activities in global health in Quebec and 2) obtain the point of view of various actors on conducting global health research in the Quebec context.
Methods: Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through specialized grids and a documentation review (5 major universities), surveys (n=25), ...