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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15 December 1998
New perspectives : malaria diagnosis
Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria are now available that allow the detection of Plasmodium-specific antigens in a finger-prick blood sample in...
1 June 1998
Guidelines for analysis of REMO data using GIS
These guidelines were prepared following an informal consultation on the analysis and interpretation of Rapid Epidemiological Mapping of Onchocerciasis...
This report reviews the contributions made by the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) to the development...
1 January 1996
Community directed treatment with ivermectin
Onchocerciasis remains serious public health in large parts of tropical Africa where some 18 million people are affected. The most severe consequence of...
7 November 1995
Tropical disease research : progress 1975-94
SummaryTwelfth programme report of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO special programme for research and training in tropical diseases.
30 April 1995
The malaria manual
The malaria manual introduces and describes anthropological research methods for the rapid assessment of social, economic and cultural information. It...