The First Ghana Biomedical Convention
Venue: Institute of Local Government Studies- Accra
"Opportunities and Challenges of New Technologies in Bio-Medicine"
13th - 15 August 2008
Objectives of Ghana Biomed
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To help link global technological advances to the opportunities and expertise in Ghana
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To bring together representatives of health care delivery funding initiatives and the Ghanaian biomedical science community
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To foster collaborations among Ghanaian biomedical Scientists both home and abroad for national benefit
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To serve as a forum for spawning ideas for postgraduate research projects and to make Ghanaian foreign biomedical scientists accessible to postgraduate students to create supervisorial and mentoring relationships
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To serve as a forum for identifying and discussing the national priorities in order to maximize the benefits of the worldwide biomedical revolution within the Ghanaian context
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To bring together representatives of the global Drug R&D community and local researchers with first-line access to relevant unexplored pharmacognostic data
Problems to be addressed
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The limited presence of current developments in contemporary Ghanaian biomedical research discourse
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The untapped local Ghanaian natural drug knowledge repository
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The untapped Diasporan-Ghanaian biomedical resource
Specific Goals for Ghana Biomed 2008
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To bring Ghanaian biomedical scientists, both home and abroad, together to know themselves, present ongoing research, share experiences and create relationships
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To identify potential synergies and areas of collaboration between participants
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To provide a forum for discussion of current advances in knowledge in the bio-medical sciences and identify areas of national benefit