Category: General

The Ministry of Equality, Health and Social Policies has recently convened the fourth edition of the Salud Investiga Awards, a contest that aims to recognize R & D & I in Health and science of excellence by professionals of the Andalusian Public Health System

Next December, the 10th Andalusian Health Investiga Conference will take place, which, on a biennial basis, is a meeting point for the research community of the Andalusian Public Health System. These conferences, one of the scientific appointments in the field of R + D + i in Health with the greatest impact in our autonomous community, will be held this year at the Andalusian School of Public Health, in Granada, on December 2.

María José Sánchez, Minister of Equality, Health and Social Policies, has carried out this morning her first appearance before the news media to reel off what her priorities will be at the head of the department she heads. Among them, she has highlighted her commitment to meet the deadlines given by her predecessor in office with respect to the opening of the Health Sciences Technology Park (PTS) hospital. Sánchez has guaranteed that the health center will be operational in one year, by the fall of 2014.

On November 20-22, 2013, the XVIII Congress of the Andalusian Society for Healthcare Quality will be held in Granada, with the slogan "ALLIANCES FOR QUALITY". THE DEADLINE FOR COMMUNCATIONS ENDS NEXT SEPTEMBER 30. As last year, we want to promote the presence of our Centers in said Congress, for which the Management Directorate will facilitate the registration fees of those professionals who participate with ORAL COMMUNICATIONS at said Congress.

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has recently published a new guide aimed at researchers of the Andalusian Public Health System in which the necessary mechanisms are established to request the correct protection of the results of their research through the different modalities of industrial and intellectual property existing.

The University Hospitals of Granada welcome the constitution of the Spanish Association of Statistics for Health (AESA), based in the Virgen de las Nieves Hospital, whose objective is to establish collaborations between statistics professionals who develop their work in the field of health sciences, also including professionals from other related disciplines to provide quality to the statistical study of data collected in the health field and thus contribute to raising confidence in statistical methods and results.

The until now director of the ISCIII, Joaquín Arenas, considers that with this change the continuity of the team is maintained and a stage in the Institute that has lasted more than 15 years is closed for him, the last nine as deputy director general of Evaluation and Promotion of Research, an activity that he combined for 4 years with the general subdirectorate of Research Networks and Centers until his appointment as general director of the Institute in February 2012.