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WHO Strategy on Research for Health World Health Editors’ Network, 16-17, Geneva

WHO Strategy on Research for Health World Health Editors’ Network, 16-17, Geneva. Charles A. Gardner, Ph.D. Content. History of the WHO’s role in research WHO Strategy on Research for Health (WHA agenda item 11.19) What they need to do to get this right. WHO core functions.

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WHO Strategy on Research for Health World Health Editors’ Network, 16-17, Geneva

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  1. WHO Strategy on Research for HealthWorld Health Editors’ Network, 16-17, Geneva Charles A. Gardner, Ph.D.

  2. Content • History of the WHO’s role in research • WHO Strategy on Research for Health • (WHA agenda item 11.19) • What they need to do to get this right

  3. WHO core functions

  4. WHO role in research • Producer of... • User of... • Communicator

  5. Origins of the strategy • 1948: Article 2 of the WHO Constitution • “...to promote and conduct research in • the field of health” • 1949: 2nd World Health Assembly • “Research and coordination of research • are essential functions of the World • Health Organization.”

  6. Origins of the strategy • 1955: Malaria Eradication Programme • FAILURE: “...the only thing it eradicating was malariologists” • 1958: Smallpox Eradication Programme • SUCCESS: because of strong linkages between research and public health

  7. Origins of the strategy • 1958: 11th World Health Assembly • Requested the Director General (DG) to “prepare an intensified medical research programme” • 1959: Advisory Committee on Health Research • Created to advise the DG (originally ACMR) • 1975: 28th World Health Assembly • Requested the Director General to develop a comprehensive long-term WHO programme for the development and coordination of research

  8. Origins of the strategy • Past “strategies” for WHO, produced by the ACHR: • 1993: Research for Health: Principles, Perspectives and Strategies • 2000: Research strategy to achieve health for all • 2004: Global Ministerial Summit on Health Research • 2005: 58th World Health Assembly • Requested the Director General to “undertake an assessment of WHO’s internal resources, expertise and activities [to develop] a position paper on WHO’s role and responsibilities in the area of health research”

  9. and finally… • 2007: 60th World Health Assembly • Requested the Director-General “to submit to the Sixty-second World Health Assembly a strategy for the management and organization of research activities within WHO.”

  10. WHO Strategy on Research for Health Delayed

  11. Inclusive process to develop strategy • Process: 18 months (March 2007–September 2008); w/advice from ACHR and external reference group • Workshops, structured interviews, public forum: • within WHO HQ and regional offices • With governments, NGOs, R&D funding agencies, research institutions, civil society and industry • Web-based discussion platform

  12. New landscape: more actors

  13. Need to get research right WHO core functions Providing leadership in health Shaping the research agenda Setting norms and standards Promoting evidence-based policies Providing technical support Monitoring the health situation

  14. because health equity is a priority

  15. Five goals of the new strategy Organization: strengthen the research culture across WHO Priorities: focus on research that responds to priority health needs Capacity: strengthen national health research systems Standards: promote good practice in research (norms and standards) Translation: strengthen links between policy, practice and products of research

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