title: Informing the establishment of the WHO Global Observatory on Health Research and Development: a call for papers.
abstract: 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.
authors: World Health Organization, Health Systems and Innovation, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland. adamt@who.int.
authors: Taghreed
authors: T
authors: Adam
authors: Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Infectious Disease Control, and Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, PO Box 4404, N-0403, Oslo, Norway. john-arne.rottingen@fhi.no.|Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA. john-arne.rottingen@fhi.no.
authors: John-Arne
authors: JA
authors: Røttingen
authors: World Health Organization, Health Systems and Innovation, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland. kienym@who.int.
authors: Marie-Paule
authors: MP
authors: Kieny
mesh_terms: D035081:Editorial Policies; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D012106:Research; D014944:World Health Organization
references: Lancet. 2013 Oct 12;382(9900):1286-307
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