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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1 January 2007
Tropical disease research: progress 2005-2006
The 18th Programme Report describes in detail the main projects and achievements of TDR during the 2005-2006 biennium.
1 January 2007
Effective project planning and evaluation in biomedical research: Participants’ manuals
This train-the-trainer course and its training material has been developed and tested in collaboration with ten African research institutions. Publication...
This train-the trainer course and its training material has been developed and tested in collaboration with ten African research institutions. Publication...
6 September 2006
Diagnostics for tuberculosis: global demand and market potential
In Diagnostics for tuberculosis: global demand and market potential, the World Health Organization's Special Programme for Tropical Diseases Research (WHO/TDR),...
6 September 2006
Partnerships for malaria control : engaging the formal and informal private sectors
A review / commissioned by the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), in collaboration...
This document is the revised version of the draft handbook Quality standards in basic biomedical research (TDR/PRD/QSBR/01.1), published in 2001. The draft...