Re: https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/international-primary-care-research-gro...
Dear Joe,
Thank you for sending the latest issue of the International Primary Care Research Group newsletter.
It's exciting to read about the 13th IPCRG World Conference and 1st North African Interdisciplinary Respiratory Forum, scheduled for 11-15 June 2026 in Tunis, Tunisia, and congratulations on 25 years since IPCRG was founded.
On behalf of HIFA I would like to thank you, Sian Williams and the IPCRG for your support over the past several years. We acknowledge this support on our website including your logo on our home page.
Please let us know if HIFA can help to raise the visibility of the conference, and your work generally. For example HIFA is active on all the main social media channels and we would be very happy to coordinate.
We note IPCRG’s vision of 'a global population breathing and feeling well through universal access to right care' and we would be interested to collaborate on how to ensure that every person and every health worker has access to the reliable healthcare information to prevent and manage respiratory problems.
HIFA recently became an official partner of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism for Non Communicable Diseases, with potential for further collaboration.
I note that the conference website is expected to launch in mid September and the opening date for abstract submission is 1 October.
As you say: 'This conference will be our first in the North Africa region. To help understand the issues in the region and the research work being undertaken, we are bringing together relevant papers in a new collection. There are also many papers published in French and Arabic, however, rather than being a comprehensive list of the local literature, this collection provides an insight into the research that is most relevant to our international audience of people responsible for the diagnosis and management of chronic respiratory disease. To view this collection, click here: https://www.ipcrg.org/tunis-2026-papers-from-the-region
This new regional collection is an innovative and very helpful and respectful approach. I have not seen such collections accompanying other major international conferences and I think this is an example of good practice that others may follow.
Wishing you all the best in your future work.
Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org