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From:  <maurouxc at who.int>

We are pleased to announce the publication of Monitoring Finan-
cial Flows for Health Research 2005: Behind the Global Numbers

Do not hesitate to contact me should you need additional infor-
mation.

Christine Mauroux
Communications Officer
Global Forum for Health Research
www.globalforumhealth.org
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Monitoring Financial Flows for Health Research 2005: Behind the
Global Numbers

2006. 90 pages. ISBN 2-940286-39-6

Two earlier studies of global resource flows Monitoring Finan-
cial Flows for Health Research 2001 and 2004, traced the sub-
stantial increases that have taken place in investments in
health R&D (US$ 85 billion in 1998, rising to almost US$ 106
billion in 2001) and highlighted the mismatch that persists be-
tween how research resources are used and the burdens of disease
affecting less developed countries.

This new volume looks behind the global totals and examines sev-
eral facets of the overall picture, including health research
funding by low- and middle-income country governments and the
private sector, as well as the financing of research on some ma-
jor neglected diseases.
http://www.globalforumhealth.org/Site/002__What%20we%20do/005__Publications/004__Resource%20flows.php

The report highlights the revolution of a much broader and more
holistic definition of health and the need for a wider and more
multi-sectoral approach to understanding the determinants of
health. This points to the challenge of defining 'health re-
search' - indeed, of re-conceptualizing it as 'research for
health' - and of developing tracking systems that identify rele-
vant sources and applications of research resources that lie be-
yond the health sector.

Contributions include:
Chapter 1: Building robust, sustainable systems of data collec-
tion, by Mary Anne Burke and Andrés de Francisco

Chapter 2: Drug R&D for neglected diseases by public-private
partnerships, by Mary Moran and Javier Guzman

Chapter 3: Basic research funds to discover important new drugs,
by Donald Light

Chapter 4: Brazilian health technology and innovation, by Re-
inaldo Guimaraes, José da Rocha Carvalheiro amd Wim Degrave

Chapter 5: Malaria research and development, by Malaria R&D Al-
liance

Chapter 6: Resource flows for HIV vaccines and microbicides, by
HIV Vaccines and Microbicides Resource Tracking Working Group

More information (press release, press statement by Stephen Mat-
lin) and pdfs are available online at:
http://www.globalforumhealth.org/

Hard copies are available from the secretariat.
Contact: info at globalforumhealth.org

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