CD49/17 - Institutional Reform of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME)

Introduction 

1. The purpose of this document is to present the 49th Directing Council with the proposed new institutional framework for the governance, management, and financing of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (hereinafter BIREME or the Center). This proposal is the result of an extensive review of the Center’s institutional framework over the past several years with the Government of Brazil and other Member States of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)...