title: Creating a new investment pool for innovative health systems research.
abstract: Recent trends in health research funding towards 'safe bets' is discouraging investment into the development of health systems interventions and choking off a vital area of policy-relevant research. This paper argues that to encourage investment into innovative and perceivably riskier health systems research, researchers need to create more attractive business cases by exploring alternative approaches to the design and evaluation of health system interventions. At the same time, the creation of dedicated funding opportunities to support this work, as well as for relevant early career researchers, is needed.
authors.affiliation: The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, PO Box M201 Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia. Email:.
authors.forename: Tracey-Lea
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Laba
authors.affiliation: The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, PO Box M201 Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia. Email:.
authors.forename: Anushka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.affiliation: The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, PO Box M201 Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia. Email:.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jan
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D006078:Government Programs; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments