Our work

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. 

Recent publications

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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...

TDR summary report 2004-05: with an overview of some key activities for 2006-07

This report identifies some selected achievements from TDR’s 2004-05 research activities, and ongoing activities that may lead to notable achievements...

Ten Year Vision and Strategy

VisionTDR's new vision and strategy respond to the new research environment and to the need to make the collective global research effort more effective...

TDR : health research that makes a difference

TDR MISSION To improve existing approaches and develop new ones for preventing, diagnosing, treating, and controlling tropical...

Making health research work for poor people: progress 2003-2004

The 2003-2004 biennium has been a mix of consolidation and transition for TDR. Throughout this period, TDR has continued to deliver success in an international...