CD49.R5: Establishment of a New Institutional Framework for the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME)

THE 49th DIRECTING COUNCIL, 

Having reviewed the proposal presented by the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (“the Director”) for the establishment of a new institutional framework for the governance, management and financing of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME) as described in the document Institutional Reform of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME) (Document CD49/17); 

Recognizing that the technical cooperation provided by BIREME to PAHO’s Member States, Participating States and Associate Members during the last 42 years in the field of the health scientific information and communication has evolved with the Virtual Health Library and related networks to become a critical and essential scientific knowledge regional “public good” oriented to the development of health research, education and care...