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ArticleHealth research policy and systems2023

Tracking global resources and capacity for health research: time to reassess strategies and investment decisions.

Taghreed Adam, Ambinintsoa H Ralaidovy, Anna Laura Ross, John C Reeder, Soumya Swaminathan

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Article in Health research policy and systems, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Taghreed AdamScience Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. adamt@who.int.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2929-2209
Ambinintsoa H RalaidovyScience Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Anna Laura RossScience Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
John C ReederScience Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Soumya SwaminathanScience Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and more recently the Monkeypox outbreak emphasize the urgency and importance of improving the availability and equitable distribution of resources for health research across rich and poor countries. Discussions about the persistent imbalances in resource allocation for health research between rich and poor countries are not new, but little or no progress has been made in redressing these imbalances over the years. This is critical not only for emergency preparedness, but for the worlds' ability to improve population health in an equitable manner. Concerned with the lack of progress in this area, Member States of the World Health Organization requested the establishment of a Global Observatory on Health Research and Development, with the aim of consolidating, monitoring and analyzing relevant information on health research and development, with a view to informing the coordination and prioritization of new investments. In this commentary, we highlight some of the striking disparities from the Observatory's analysis over the 5 years since its establishment and reflect on what is needed to overturn stagnant progress.

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