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Welcome to the website of Enreca Health

This website is a forum for information, knowledge and experience sharing aimed at professionals and others interested in the field of research for health and development. On this website, you can find information on the Network's objectives and activities as well as research projects of the Network participants and its institutional partners.
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What is Enreca Health? Your network at a glance

The Danish Research Network for International Health (Enreca Health) is a technical forum providing evidence and stimulating dialogue between researchers from the South and the North as well as between researchers and policy makers and other users of research results, such as NGOs and private companies. The Network is in particular concerned with the enhancement of research capacity as an essential component of the Danish support to the improvement of health of the poor and marginalised groups in low income countries.

Enreca Health is an open network with participants from academic institutions in Denmark as well as in the South, NGOs, private consultancy companies as well as development advisers and resource persons involved in research for health and development in the North and in the South.

Objectives: The Network aims to strengthen the dialogue and interaction between research and development assistance in international health as a means of improving health in low-income societies, in line with the principles of Danish Development Aid and the needs of partner countries in the South. More specific objectives are, in collaboration with associate partners, to contribute to the strengthening of health research and its integration in health sector development. Further, to promote the dissemination and exchange of information among institutions and development organisations, including Danida supported activities, other relevant organisations and networks, thus strengthening the Danish resource base in the field of health.

Framework and approaches: The researchers who are involved in the Network hold expertise in a wide range of topics such as child health, sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, nutrition and food safety, and prevention and control of malaria, TB and other neglected diseases. Likewise, they hold expertise in environmental health, non-communicable diseases, use of pharmaceuticals, health systems, and humanitarian aid in conflicts and natural catastrophes. The approaches of the Network are characterised by cross-disciplinary collaboration, combining social-cultural aspects with bio-medical research.

Sponsor: The Network is primarily funded by Danida and works closely together with Danida's Technical Advisory Service.

Host: The secretariat is hosted by the International Health Unit, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, the University of Copenhagen.

How can I be involved? If you are interested, you can join Network's mailing list and receive invitation to seminars and meetings as well as updates about research and development related news. Please contact the Secretariat.