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The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) announced the results of the selection process for entry into the Health Researcher Career Track. On this occasion, three members of the Institute for Clinical and Health Effectiveness (IECS) were selected, representing significant recognition of their career and sustained work.

The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) renewed the designation of the Institute for Clinical and Health Effectiveness (IECS) as a Collaborating Center for Health Technology Assessment (HTA), consolidating more than a decade of joint work aimed at strengthening health decision-making in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), announces the publication of “HEARTS quality: a policy framework to strengthen hypertension and cardiovascular risk management in primary health care—insights from HEARTS in the Americas,” published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. The Quality Framework

The Argentine Chamber of Deputies declared the project “Analysis and Visualization of Gender Inequalities in Mortality in Argentina,” developed at the CIIPS of the IECS, to be of national interest. The initiative was presented at an informational meeting of the Women and Diversity Committee, following an invitation from Deputy Pablo Yedlin, the project's sponsor.

In the context of this date, national and international media outlets disseminated a study conducted by the Department of Health Technology Assessment (ETESA) of the IECS. The research warns of the absence of a national program to prevent and detect lung cancer early, the leading cause of cancer death in Argentina.