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EpiSurveyor Free Mobile Data Collection

EpiSurveyor is a web- and mobile- tool to allow organizations to gather research, management, and other data from the field using common mobile phones, and winner of the 2009 Wall Street Journal Award for Technology Innovation in the category of healthcare. It is not limited to health-related data, and is attracting users from a variety of other fields.

As easy as Gmail, free to 99% of users, with 3000 users in 150+ countries worldwide. If you are collecting data using paper and clipboard, you could probably be using EpiSurveyor to do real-time mobile electronic data collection.

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Bookmarked by Joel Selanikio on 14 Jan 2011
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Job opportunity in WWARN

Statistician (Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network)

NUFFIELD DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, Centre for Tropical Medicine

Grade 7: Salary £29,099 - £35,788 p.a.

More than 500 million become severely ill with malaria every year and more than 1 million die from the effects of the disease. The Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), working with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will set up a global drug resistance information resource so that more of the right drugs can get to the right people at the right time, and the drugs will last longer. Details can be found on the website at http://www.wwarn.org/.

This exciting post will support the Clinical Module of WWARN, ensuring that the clinical database i) meets the requirement of the clinical team and other stakeholders, ii) works with the database architecture (designed in collaboration with the informatics team), and iii) allows cross-referencing between the Clinical, In Vitro, Molecular and Pharmacological Modules of WWARN. The successful candidate will develop a wide variety of research and analytical tools including but not limited to: clinical trial, meta-analysis and time-series analyses.

You will have a postgraduate qualification in data analysis or statistics (or equivalent work experience), and experience working with database developers. Experience of working with data from countries in Africa, Asia or Latin America is highly desirable.

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Bookmarked by The Editorial Team on 7 Apr 2011
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The Lancet: Cancer in developing countries: can the revolution begin?

This bookmark links to the Lancet's 2011 article related to the control and prevention of cancer in developing countries, and discusses lifestyle markers, cost, and sustainable control programmes.

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Bookmarked by The Editorial Team on 4 Dec 2011
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World Journal of Microbiology - some content available free online

This link is for the World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology.

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Bookmarked by The Editorial Team on 4 Dec 2011
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International Leishmania Network

The International Leishmania Network is a network of experts and researchers in leishmaniasis and has been active since 1993. This website has an extensive discussion forum on all areas of leishmaniasis diagnostics, research and treatment, and structured topic areas.

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Bookmarked by The Editorial Team on 6 Dec 2011
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