Our work
Our specific impact goals are to:
- Increase access to health interventions in countries with high burdens of infectious diseases through the generation and use of high-quality research.
- Accelerate the development of innovative tools, solutions and implementation strategies essential for disease control and elimination through research and partnership.
- Build a critical mass of researchers in disease-affected countries who can conduct, lead and further develop research through training and mentorship.
- Engage a broad global community to facilitate the role of research for development, and advocate for the use of high quality evidence to inform policy.
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31 May 2012
Effective project planning and evaluation in biomedical research: Step-by-step guide: Participants
Publication details Number of pages: 31 Publication date: 2005 Languages: English, French, Spanish WHO reference number: TDR/RCS/PPE/05.2 ...
11 May 2012
TDR biennial report 2010/11
Innovation for healthOverviewThis report provides an overview of the key research achievements and ongoing progress; stewardship and empowerment activities...
9 February 2012
Monitor evaluate improve: TDR performance assessment framework
Three key issues are specifically addressed in the 2012–2017 revision of TDR’s Performance Assessment Framework: Improving the set of...
17 November 2011
Malaria rapid diagnostic test performance. Results of WHO product testing of malaria RDTs: Round 3 (2010-2011)
This report is the third in a series of laboratory-based evaluations of malaria RDTs. It provides a comparative measure of RDT performance in a standardized...
6 September 2011
Use of interferon-y (inteferon-gama) release assays (IGRAs) in tuberculosis control in low- and middle-income...
Research over the past decade has resulted in the development of two commercial interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs). Both assays work on the principle...
15 February 2011
Commercial serodiagnostic tests for diagnosis of tuberculosis
An antibody detection-based diagnostic test in a user-friendly format could potentially replace microscopy and extend tuberculosis diagnosis to lower levels...