Bebe Loff is Associate Professor and Head, Human Rights & Bioethics Unit in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University in Australia. Prof. Loff is an activist who has worked with community based groups locally and internationally, and a lawyer.
Read moreThe setting of priorities to guide countries’ health research agendas was already highlighted by the Commision on Health Research in 1990 as an action point within the Essential National Health Research (ENHR) strategy. Since then, many developing countries have set priorities, held workshops and consultations and developed lists to define the directions their health research agendas should take. Today there is a realisation amoung many research managers that more effort is needed so that research priorities can move into policy impact.
Read moreThis approach developed by COHRED with country partners aims to create a dynamic process for managing health research priorities, and for measuring and updating them. It is a process that evolves with the reality of a country’s national and political context.
Read moreThis web area is a continually growing resource. It provides health research managers – and others involved in health research system strengthening – with practical tools, examples and approaches to improve the performance of health research in countries.
The resources offered here have been developed in response to countries’ needs and based on evidence from the work of COHRED and others specialising in health research system development, management, and research capacity strengthening.
Read moreA vertical research programme is responsible if it succeeds in building the capacity of a country’s researchers and the national research system – in the process of achieving its own research goals.
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