How ICN is promoting research.

"No Health Without Research." That's the conclusion of the 43rd World Health Assembly technical discussions in May and ICN's warning since the early '70s when it began to promote nursing research in earnest. But ICN's commitment to research is not recent. It is deeply embedded in its first constitution in 1900. Below, a review of ICN's special role in supporting research, excerpted from Taka Oguisso's introductory speech to the Task Force on International Research meeting in May (page 287).