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Dr Noor Hisham Is Selected To Join Global COVID-19 Fight Along With Prominent Scientists
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has been selected to join a coalition of global scientists to stop the COVID-19 pandemic
According to Bernama, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) said Dr Noor Hisham is among the 74 signatories for the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition, an international coalition that is tasked to accelerate desperately needed COVID-19 research.
Other than scientists, the coalition also comprises of physicians, funders, ministries of health, academia, not-for-profit research and development organisations, NGOs, and international organisations from over 70 institutions from over 30 countries.
The group of greatest minds will work together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic and cease the spread in resource-poor settings, where the people are most vulnerable to the infection.
Dr Noor Hisham will be joined by prominent scientists from universities such as Harvard and Oxford among others
Notable figures in the coalition include the Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Harvard Medical School, USA, Paul Farmer; Director-General of the Institut Pasteur, France, Stewart Cole; and Senior Scientist at the University of Oxford, Philippe J Guerin.
Citing a comment published in a peer-reviewed general medical journal, The Lancet, DNDi said that international research collaboration and coordination are needed urgently to support African, Latin American, Eastern European, and certain Asian countries to respond effectively to the worsening pandemic.
DNDi's statement noted that although the World Health Organisation (WHO)-led SOLIDARITY trial has been launched and currently has 600 COVID-19 clinical trials registered, very few trials are planned in resource-poor settings.
"The scale of the challenge is clearly beyond the scope of any single organisation," DNDi said in a statement.
"The coalition will facilitate a coordinated approach, so that all data from all regions can be collected in a similar fashion, pooled and shared in real-time."
"We welcome the launch of this coalition, which takes advantage of existing multinational and multidisciplinary expertise in running clinical trials in resource-poor settings, and will help the WHO in its coordinating role in the global response to COVID-19," said WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan.
"Although the epicentre is today elsewhere, we must prepare now for the consequences of this pandemic in more resource-constrained settings or we stand to lose many more lives."
Members of the coalition also called for specific commitments to ensure access, so that effective new treatments are made available as soon as possible in resource-poor settings and are affordable and readily accessible.
To see the full signatories of the DNDi's coalition, visit here : https://www.dndi.org/2020/media-centre/press-releases/coalition-launched-accelerate-research-covid19-low-middle-income-countries/
soure : Bernama (https://www.bernama.com/en/general/news.php?id=1828071)
KUALA LUMPUR: Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah telah dipilih menyertai sekumpulan saintis dunia untuk membuat kajian memerangi pandemik COVID-19.
Noor Hisham merupakan salah seorang penandatangan dan ahli Gabungan Penyelidikan Klinikal COVID-19 tersebut.
Dalam satu kenyataan, Noor Hisham memaklumkan Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (KKM) berbangga dapat menyertai gabungan yang berusaha mencari penyelesaian yang akan memberi manfaat kepada semua.
"Pandemik COVID-19 memberi kesan kepada kita semua, jadi jika terdapat penyelesaian yang ditemui atau dibangunkan, ia akan tersedia untuk semua pihak menerusi kerjasama ini.
"Gabungan ini menggalakkan lebih banyak kolaborasi global dan mendorong keupayaan kami untuk mencari penyelesaian dan memperkuat keupayaan saintifik kami untuk melawan pandemik ini," katanya.
Selain para saintis, gabungan ini terdiri daripada pakar perubatan, penderma dan pembuat dasar dari lebih daripada 70 institusi dari lebih dari 30 buah negara.
Penandatangan lain termasuk Profesor Universiti Kesihatan dan Sosial Sosial Kolokotrones di Sekolah Perubatan Harvard, Paul Farmer; Ketua Pengarah Institut Pasteur di Perancis, Stewart Cole; dan saintis kanan di University of Oxford, Philippe J Guerin.