Silvia Bertagnolio, MD World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland
WHO Strategy on Research for Health World Health Editors’ Network, 16-17, Geneva
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WHO Strategy on Research for HealthWorld Health Editors’ Network, 16-17, Geneva
Charles A. Gardner, Ph.D.
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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
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WHO core functions
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WHO role in research
Producer
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User of...
Communica
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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.”
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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
Origins of the strategy
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1958: 11th World Health AssemblyRequested 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 AssemblyRequested the Director General to develop a comprehensive long-term WHO programme for the development and coordination of research
Origins of the strategy
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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 AssemblyRequested 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”
Origins of the strategy
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2007: 60th World Health AssemblyRequested the Director-General “to submit to the Sixty-second World Health Assembly a strategy for the management and organization of research activities within WHO.”
and finally…
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WHO Strategy on Research for Health
DelayedDelayed
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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
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New landscape: more actors
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Need to get research right
1) Providing leadership in health
2) Shaping the research agenda
3) Setting norms and standards
4) Promoting evidence-based policies
5) Providing technical support6) Monitoring the health
situation
WHO core functions
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because health equity is a priority
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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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