The Lancet Series on Health in Southeast Asia was conceived of in early 2009 as the partnership between China Medical Board, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Lancet. It aimed to follow on to the success of China Medical Board and The Lancet’s collaboration on the Health System Reform in China Series launched in 2008. The Health in Southeast Asia Series was launched in Bangkok in May 2009 at a brainstorming consultation hosted by Rockefeller Foundation.
This series would be the first Lancet Series focused on geographic region and thus posed some special challenges in forging a regional vision and common geography for the Series. The Series purpose is to scientifically analyze regional health developments for policy dialogue through the academic production of a set of scientific papers. The Series also aims to promote research capacity-building by engaging with younger researcher and by seeking to foster longer term research collaborations within the region. Over time, it is expected that regional health researcher and policy makers will assume leadership of the Series for policy dialogue, publication, and dissemination.
The Bangkok brainstorming consultation in May 2009 has generated a list of prioritized health topics for consideration as thematic papers and commentaries in the series. Teams were formed to begin the development of detailed outlines of the Theme papers. The teams further worked on initial drafts of the papers. Hoi An first author workshop has produced the revised first drafts of Theme papers and a series of Commentaries for the Series.
The second author workshop aims to produce revised second drafts of Theme papers to be submitted for peer review process. The workshop will help finalize the Theme papers, strengthen their analytics and policy relevance, and thus ensure the highly qualified scientific papers. The following is the list of six Theme papers:
1) Health in Southeast Asia : Equity with diversity
2) An unfinished agenda : Under nutrition, maternal and child health
3) Infectious diseases : Emergence and re-emergence
4) Growing burdens : Non-communicable diseases as development challenges
5) Reforming health systems and financing mechanisms
6) Human resources : Managing intra-national and international maldistribution
Yogyakarta, 22 – 23 February 2010
Time : 08.00 – 17.00 WIB
Place : Faculty of Medicine Gadjah Mada University
Ruang Sidang Utama Lantai 3, Gedung Administrasi Fakultas Kedokteran UGM
