event description

On June 29, the first meeting of the International expert academic working group on the development of national evidence bases in healthcare, bioethics and biosafety of the CIS member states took place in Minsk.

The event was attended by representatives of the national academies of sciences of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as members of the Commission on the development of bioethics principles and evidence-based medicine of the expert council on healthcare at the IPA CIS.

Within the framework of the expert group’s activities, the following issues were considered: international scientific cooperation on health protection, development of model laws and model industry recommendations in the field of healthcare, improvement of mechanisms for promoting research results to the market of CIS countries and third countries, formation of cross-border and industry innovative technology clusters. The participants of the group also touched upon the aspects of creating conditions for interstate cooperation aimed at improving the quality of life, developing human capital for further innovative development, increasing the competitiveness of the economies of the Commonwealth countries.

The Chairman of the International Expert Academic Working Group was elected at the meeting. He became the Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Alexander Kilchevsky.

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