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    Innovating for the health of all: Global Forum update on research for health, volume 6

    Global Forum for Health Research, 2009
    This report focuses on incentives that drive innovation. For new technologies, people are generally familiar with ‘push’ and ‘pull’ incentives. Push incentives include public funding for research and tax breaks for private sector research and development; pull incentives include intellectual property, private markets, public procurement and prizes for innovation.
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    New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)

    The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent academic research and educational institution with students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty.
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    Getting research into policy and practice

    Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009
    The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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    Getting research into policy, or out of practice, in HIV?

    The Lancet, 2010
    Globally, health policy has been dominated by calls for getting research into practice. This notwithstanding, this paper argues that many health interventions are based on hypotheses that are best guesses or gut feelings.
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    National policy-makers speak out: are researchers giving them what they need?

    Health Policy and Planning, 2010
    This empirical study, published in the Health Policy and Planning journal, was undertaken to better understand the perspectives and attitudes of policy-makers towards the use and impact of research in the health sector in low- and middle-income countries.
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    Country ownership and vertical programmes in health, health information and health research

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2008
    This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, argues that in most low- and middle-income countries, foreign-funded initiatives determine national health research agendas, even in countries in which governments contribute substantially to supporting national health research systems, institutions and personnel.
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    Grand challenges in global health: engaging civil society organizations in biomedical research in developing countries

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2007
    While several publications have addressed the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in social science research in health, their role in biomedical research has not been widely discussed. This paper, published by Public Library of Science Medicine, delineates different types of CSOs, their role in biomedical research, and the advantages and challenges of working with them.
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    A Breakthrough in R&D for neglected diseases: new ways to get the drugs we need

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2005
    Whereas only 13 new drugs have been developed for neglected tropical diseases since 1975, this paper, published in PLoS Medicine, notes that this is as a result of current perception that these diseases are not commercially attractive for companies to invest in and the other being that, although public-private partnerships (PPPs) for drug development have started, they are problemat
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    Status of national health research systems in ten countries of the WHO African Region

    BioMed Central, 2006
    This paper, published by BioMed Central, takes stock of some aspects of national resources for health research in the countries of the WHO African Region. The authors also identify current constraints facing national health research systems and propose the way forward.
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    From Mexico to Mali: progress in health policy and systems research

    The Lancet, 2008
    In 2004, the ministerial summit in Mexico drew attention to the historic neglect of health policy and systems research (HPSR) and called for increased funding, investment in national institutional capacity for HPSR, and resources for selected priority research topics.

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