VII National Contest of Research and Development Projects in Health – 2010

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This call is made in the framework of a joint and shared financing, between the Ministry of Health and the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), fundamental research aimed at generating health. It seeks to provide relevant information to help improve decision-making in health. This requires further investigation whose results are disseminated, desemboquen clinical applications and public health and contribute to the training of new researchers.

Disciplines involved:
Health Sciences, Public Health, Medicine, Social Health Research.

The National Fund for Research and Development in Health, FONIS, mission is to fund projects that generate new knowledge to help improve decision-making in health, ranging from health policy design to the level of clinical decision.

In this manner, FONIS to generate and enhance scientific and technological knowledge through the opening of a public competition that brings together public and private institutions of various disciplines whose common interest is to improve the health of the Chilean population.

CONICYT and the Ministry of Health established from the 2001 a line of work together to find a better link between research and the needs of the country. These needs were synthesized by the Ministry of Health through Health Objectives 2000-2010, where there is a need to improve health gains achieved to date, desafÃos face of an aging, of changes in society and lifestyles, reduce inequality gaps exist and provide services according to the expectations of the population ³ n.

Participation in this contest that proponents have legal personality, as health, universities, mutual, clinics, study centers, municipalities, Professional institutes on research (public or private), companies, corporations, foundations and other.

  • Contest Start Date: 25 March 2010
  • Competition closing date: 27 April 2010 (17:00 hrs.)