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Jacques Parisot Foundation Fellowship for Research in Social Medicine or Public Health: selection of candidates for the 1978 award (Documents WPR/RC28/5, Add.l and Add.2 and WPR/RC28/15)
The Committee noted that the Jacques Parisot Foundation had been established in 1969 to perpetuate the memory of Professor Jacques Parisot, a former President of the World Health Assembly. Up to 1975, lectures had been given each year during the Health Assembly but, in that year, it had been suggested that a research fellowship in social medicine or public health be awarded instead. Each regional committee was to take it in turn to select three candidates, whose proposals for research would be reviewed by the relevant Regional Advisory Committee on Medical Research and submitted to the Foundation Committee. In 1977 it had fallen to the lot of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific to make the selection. The successful candidate would receive a sum of approximately US$ 5000 to commence his research in February 1978 and would be expected to present the results of his work in March 1979. In May 1979, the Thirty-second World Health Assembly would award him the Jacques Parisot Medal and the Director-General would decide whether or not WHO should publish his report.
The Committee established a working group composed of Representatives of France, Malaysia and New Zealand to study the proposals of the candidates nominated by Member States and to select three. The report of the Working Group was presented to the Committee at its fourth plenary meeting on Thursday, 8 September. The Committee adopted a resolution in which it decided that the candidates nominated by the Governments of the Philippines, Republic of Korea and Singapore be requested to provide additional information on their research proposals for forwarding to the Regional Advisory Committee on Medical Reaearch to enable it to make finalrecomDendations to the Jacques Parisot Foundation. It also suggested that the Foundation could assist regional committees in selecting suitable candidates in the future by providing better defined guidelines for eligibility (see resolution WPR/RC28.R12).