Reflections from Mark

Dear Nastaran

Thanks for making contact. The ISECN looks interesting and I would love to continue communications to share ideas and feed in to our mutual goals. Congratulations on establishing this working group. It also reflects real needs in the brain drain that can occur from developing to developed and from southern to northern hemisphere (there was an article about New Zealand 's losses in this area recently). The sort of initiatives and responses you are cultivating could be an important strategic response to these "brain drain" issues whereby established researchers and experts leave their country of origin for work in US, Europe, etc. Providing incentives to new and emerging researchers to build their capacity and be involved in international opportunities could be an effective way to encourage researchers to maintain work in their home country while also building their careers and feeling the satisfaction of participating ina worldwide public health movement. It will be interesting to see if this program logic fits with the findings of WHO Knowledge Networks on this issue.
All the best
Mark