PHA-Exch> Monitoring Financial Flows for Health Research 2007 Behind the Global Numbers

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org

 *Monitoring Financial Flows for Health Research 2007 Behind the Global
Numbers.  ** **The Global Forum for Health Research, June 2008*

* *Available online PDF [58p.] at:
http://www.globalforumhealth.org/filesupld/monitoring_financial_flows_07/GlobalForum_MonitoringFinancial%20Flows2007.pdf

 "….Data on research and development (R&D) investments for health provide an
indicator of current research priorities, trends, overlaps and gaps. As
health is dynamic, it is vital to regularly track these investments to make
sure they are used in more efficient, effective and equitable ways.

The Global Forum for Health Research is the only organization that regularly
tracks and reports on the world's R&D investments for health. This 2007
collection of studies looks behind the global totals, analysing R&D for
health expenditures in Argentina, China, Mexico and the United States. It
also looks at investments in the research of cancer and 20 historically
high-burden infectious diseases.

The rich tapestry of evidence provided reveals key conclusions:

• Investments in research for a range of globally important diseases and
conditions remain inadequate – especially with respect to health problems in
low- and middle-income countries.

• Matching investments with research priorities is of paramount importance
for many poor countries affected by the double burden of both
noncommunicable and communicable diseases.

• Large investors in high-income countries and governments in low- and
middle-income countries pay insufficient attention to local, national and
global priority needs when allocating resources….."

*Content:*

**

*Chapter 1 Public funding of health research in Argentina*

Daniel Maceira and Martín Peralta Alcat


*Chapter 2 Financial flows for health research and development in Mexico: an
analysis of the National Institutes of Health*

Ricardo Pérez-Núñez, Francisco Becerra-Posada, Manuel Magaña- Lisa M
DeMaria, Álvaro Javier Idrovo and Stefano Bertozzi

*Chapter 3 Assessment of the health research system in Shanghai, People's
Republic of China*

Jie Chen and Li Du

*Chapter 4 US investment in research to improve health
*Mary Woolley, Emily T Connelly and Stacie M Propst

*Chapter 5 Using bibliometrics to inform cancer research policy and spending
*

Richard Sullivan, Seth Eckhouse and Grant Lewison for the European Cancer
Research Managers Forum

*Chapter 6 Donor funding priorities for communicable disease control in the
developing world*

Jeremy Shiffman
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