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Apply for the Elsevier – TWAS Sustainability Visiting Expert Program until September 1st! The program aims to provide institutions and research groups in developing countries, especially those with limited outside contacts, with the opportunity to establish long-term links with world […]

INASP/Research4Life contest highlights critical role of doctors, researchers and librarians in advocating for an evidence-based policy To highlight the critical role that doctors, researchers, librarians and policymakers play in advocating their leaders to support research in their institutions and countries, […]

Send us your story of successful advocacy which has improved the research environment! Send us your story of successful advocacy which has improved the research environment at your institution, or the health, educational, environmental, social or economic wellbeing of your […]

Why are women’s innovations so important in the developing world? It is well known that women generally take fewer STEM courses than men in college and that the numbers of women in science tend to taper off the further up […]

Have you ever seen an operation room from the inside? Or wanted to understand how a hospital works without actually being sick? On June 5th, eight Elsevier colleagues joined the IMC Weekend School and a group of 40 kids during […]

Elsevier Foundation contest offers €75K in prizes for innovative solutions to challenges in developing countries This year, the Elsevier Foundation is running this contest. They are seeking applications for projects that use green and sustainable chemistry solutions to tackle some […]

The “Train the Trainers” ‪HINARI‬ workshop has officially started at the ‪‎Bangladesh‬ Medical Research Council! Our partner Research4Life currently hold the HINARI/Research4Life “Train the trainers” workshop in ‪Bangladesh‬. More than 20 librarians attend the workshop in Dhaka. The trainers work […]

  Elsevier was honored by the Accessible Books Consortium for for Accessible Publishing at the London Book Fair yesterday   The winners of the 2016 Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing were announced during a popular awards […]

For the winners of the Elsevier Foundation Award, early experiences led them to research that would change lives There came a point early in these women’s lives where they knew the path they would follow in the world of science. […]

Amref Health Africa ramps up Jibu – Swahili for “answer” – a mobile nursing education app with support from the Elsevier Foundation. There is “no health without a workforce,” states a 2013 World Health Organization report on human resources for […]

Ugandan biologist, Dr Etheldreda Nakimuli‐Mpungu is named among the five winners of the coveted Elsevier Foundation Award in recognition of her work in fighting depression among persons living with HIV/Aids. Nakimuli is listed alongside scholars from Indonesia, Nepal, Peru and […]

Annual award recognizes early-career researchers from developing countries In recognition of research with strong potential for health and economic benefits, five researchers have been named winners of the 2016 Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing […]