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Clinical Research Education and Management Services (CREAMS) Ltd
December 2011
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About CREAMS
• Company registered in Malawi (under Companies Act 46:03, section 14) in December 2011
• Mission: To act as a major partner in shaping the research policy, technical and scientific environment that will enable the public and private health sectors in Malawi to capably participate in and effectively contribute to ongoing high quality medical research for generation of evidence in the fight against clinical and public health problems
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Operational structure
International Advisors
Office (Lilongwe)Board of Directors (3)Local consultants:• Public Health• Statistician• Epidemiologist• Health economics• Social sciences
SERVICES
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Services
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Public Private Sector
Coordination
Study design
Conduct of research
Research capacity needs assessment
and implementation
Research training• Research methodology• Grant writing• Research Ethics• Publication of results• Higher education degrees
Research database development CREAMS
Procurement and distribution of
research equipment and consumables
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Intended outcomes• Changing how research is done:– Accessible and affordable research training– Involvement of private sector in research– Better Private-Public sector coordination– Improved personal and institutional research
capacity– More international collaborative research
opportunities– Accessible data base of research conducted in
Malawi for meta-analysis and policy formulationCREAMS
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Recent activities• Interactive website that point users to various
online research training opportunities• Malawi bibliographic database:– First of its kind in Malawi– 2500 abstracts of health research ever conduct in
Malawi by 6000 authors – Free access abstracts but not full articles
• Joint research applications with local partners– WHO TDR (September 2012)– Canadian Grand Challenges (September 2012)
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Thanks• Partners:
– MoH (Dr Damson Kathyola)– Commission of Science and Technology (Dr Mathilda Chithila)– Malawi College of Health Science (Mr Dennis Simango)– Kamuzu College of Nursing (Dr Alfred Maluwa)
• Individuals:– Dr Thomas Nyirenda– Dr Peter Nyasulu– Dr Edwin Libamba– Dr George Ganiza– Mr Matthews Ngwale– Dr Bagrey Ngwira
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