The global forum for health research wasestablished in 1998 as an independent Swiss foundation, topromote health research on the problems of poor countriesand people. The creation of the global forum responded tothe growing awareness among policy makers in industrial andin developing countries that research related to the healthproblems affecting developing country populations wasreceiving inadequate attention on the global agenda. Theglobal forum has devoted its energies increasingly to healthequity as a way to focus the attention of researchers andpolicy makers on the problems of the poor. Annualexpenditures on the core activities of the global forum havebeen about $3.5 million. Bilateral donors and the World Bankfinance virtually all of the global forum's activities.This Global Program Review (GPR) assesses the quality andindependence of the second evaluation of the global forum;provides a second opinion on the effectiveness of the forum;assesses the performance of the Bank as a partner of theforum; and draws lessons for the future. It contains datafrom the beginning of the forum to the present, includingkey developments during the last two years since the secondexternal evaluation was completed. The global forum waschosen for a GPR because it provides lessons for the designand operation of other global programs, especially foradvocacy programs, and for international support of healthresearch more generally.
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