Informing the establishment of the WHO Global Observatory on Health Research and Development: a call for papers

Health Research Policy and Systems

Marie-Paule Kieny²  John-Arne Røttingen¹  Taghreed Adam² 

[1] Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA;World Health Organization, Health Systems and Innovation, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland

关键词: Research and development;    Observatory;    Investments;    Global health;    Funding;   

Others  :  1133763
DOI  :  10.1186/1478-4505-13-9

 received in 2015-01-15, accepted in 2015-01-21,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

In May 2013, the WHO Member States requested the WHO to establish a Global Observatory on Health Research and Development (R&D), as part of a strategic work-plan to promote innovation, build capacity, improve access, and mobilize resources to address diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest countries.

The rationale for establishing a Global Observatory on Health R&D is to provide a mechanism to monitor and analyse health R&D resource flows, product pipelines, and research outputs, aiming to contribute to the identification of gaps to inform priority-setting for new R&D investments to be operationalized through a new global financing and coordination mechanism for health R&D and utilized by all stakeholders informing health research policy decisions in countries, civil society, and the private sector.

As one of the mechanisms to achieve the goals of the Global Observatory on Health R&D, the WHO is launching a Call for Papers to be published as a Thematic Series in Health Research Policy and Systems to contribute state-of-the-art knowledge and innovative approaches to analyse, interpret, and report on health R&D information. Further, to serve as a key resource to inform the future WHO-convened coordination mechanism, which will be utilized to generate evidence-informed priorities for new R&D investments to be financed through a proposed new global financing and coordination mechanism for health R&D.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 World Health Organization; licensee BioMed Central.

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