JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2024
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With a firm vocation for global cooperation, at the IECS we also seek to accentuate it with those developing countries that make up this group or “region” with diverse characteristics and common aspirations.
The term “South-South cooperation” is used to describe the exchange of resources, technology and knowledge between developing countries, also called countries of the Global South. According to the United Nations, South-South cooperation is a manifestation of solidarity between the peoples and countries of the South that contributes to their well-being, their self-sufficiency and the international achievement of the sustainable development goals of the 2030 agenda, which constitute the map agreed upon by all countries to achieve a better world within 6 years. We are committed to adding our contribution in that path.
From the impact of the climate crisis to the resurgence of infectious diseases or the rising cost of health technologies, public health faced and faces multiple challenges. And the IECS, as has been the case for more than 20 years, works with academic rigor, commitment, creativity and sensitivity to contribute its efforts to the search for solutions based on the best evidence that help confront or mitigate some of these problems in the country. , in the region and in the world.
Our headquarters are located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in 2023 we open a new administrative headquarters in Montevideo, Uruguay, with the aim of enhancing our global presence. During 2023, we carry out 103 research and technical cooperation projects in 20 countries, including much of Latin America, but also expanding our influence to other regions with projects in countries such as India, Kenya, Jamaica, Nigeria or the United Arab Emirates.
Today we are 123 people who work at the IECS, of which just over half are researchers and the rest are interns and support staff. Three quarters are women. Throughout 2023, 16 people left IECS to explore other horizons, including destinations such as England, Spain and the Netherlands; but 27 joined, most of them from Argentina, but also from Peru and Uruguay, which reflects a healthy integration between the experience and the “fresh” perspective that the new members of the institution bring.
Other metrics show the vitality of the IECS. In 2023 there were 51 people who submitted a total of 164 project applications, which shows the broad base of principal investigators and project leaders that make up the different Departments, Units and Centers of IECS. Many of these applications were presented by IECS in cooperation with prestigious institutions around the world, such as Harvard University, Imperial College London, Northwestern University of Chicago, the Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya and the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia , which also shows our vocation for global cooperation.
Another of the pillars of the IECS, education, also had reasons for pride in 2023. In addition to the dictate of the Master in Clinical Effectiveness from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), We offered 23 courses and training programs for almost 800 students from 19 countries, from Argentina and Brazil to Honduras, the United States and Spain. Training actors for the improvement and transformation of health is another sign of commitment to the mission that we embraced more than two decades ago.
Dr. Andrés Pichón-Riviere, general director of the IECS.