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8th PNHRS Week to focus on health researches’ role in disaster, emergency health management
The Philippine National Health System (PNHRS) will be celebrating its 8th PNHRS week on 12-14 August, 2014 at Radisson Blu Hotel, Cebu City with the theme: “Research and Innovation in Health for Disaster and Emergency Health Management”.
Hosted by Central Visayas Consortium for Health and Research Development (CVCHRD), the PNHRS week will focus on the role of health research in disaster and emergency health management. This event will enable health research stakeholders to interact, learn from each other and share evidenced-based information to contribute in establishing the country’s responsive disaster and emergency health management systems.
More than 500 participants nationwide coming from the 17 regional health research consortia are expected to participate in the event. For more information, please contact PNHRS Secretariat at telephone numbers: (02) 837-7534 or (02) 837-7537 or visit PNHRS website at http://www.healthresearch.ph/.
PNHRS Week is held annually on the second week of August by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 1309 signed in 2007.