BIOM

BIOM - Biotechnology and Integrating Organizational Medicine , is a small organization devoted to helping people of all races and ethnic groups to find and apply technological advances, good practices, and modern protcols relevant to health care and education.

Composed exclusively of volunteers, BIOM has its organizational heart in Europe (United Kingdom and Italy). While inspired by solidaristic principles, its field of operation is nowhere limited to so called third world countries. Since 1997, BIOM has operated throughout Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America and elsewhere.

BIOM acts anonimously, contributing to projects like the development of 'hope coffees' on border regions of various countries, helping people founding health counseling directly or, where operators are unavailable, by using modern resources (Videoconferencing and The Internet).

Also, BIOM biometrical consultants have offered free, independent advise AbOUT the correct setup of clinical studies to countries that present economic and logistic difficulties, and advised on good practices in data analysis. BIOM has encouraged the use of open software in developing countries. Other notable initiatives have always been taken into consideration, and possibly adopted. An attempt to unify statistical modeling applied to epidemiological studies has also been made, inspired by the work on generalized linear models (GLM), and the development of modern simulation.

ASEAN 2

Towards a People Driven African Union: Current Challenges and New Opportunities 3 AfriMAP, AFRODAD and Oxfam GB, January 2007