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Global engagement

Global engagement: Promoting innovative and inclusive approaches to research

An essential part of TDR’s work is to engage with the global health community to promote and facilitate the role of research for development and to advocate for the use of high-quality evidence to inform policy. TDR is at the interface between research and health care delivery and is embedded within the UN family through its cosponsors (UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank, and WHO). This unique positioning allows TDR to create a bridge from local communities to the World Health Assembly to enable the broadest possible scope of dialogue and debate across the spectrum of health research – from priority setting to evidence-based policy-making at local, national, regional and global levels.

This global engagement includes promoting a broad range of community-based social innovations that are transforming health care delivery, shaping the research agenda, supporting the translation of evidence to policy, and leveraging a global network of more than 7000 scientists and experts who have been associated with TDR.
   

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Local Production for Access to Medical Products: Developing a Framework to Improve Public Health

1 July 2011
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Local Production for Access to Medical Products: Developing a Framework to Improve Public Health
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Overview

This paper is the output of work commissioned and undertaken by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and a range of stakeholders working in the fields of public health, industrial policy and development (United Nations, 2011a; WHO, 2011a,b,c,d,e). It is supported by funding from the European Union. The aim of this work was to develop a framework that could bring together and guide policy-makers and others from all these relevant fields. The framework presented here provides an entry point for supporting the local production of medicines, vaccines and diagnostics in a manner that should improve access to those medical products maximizing the potential to improve public health.

WHO Team
Local production and assistance
Number of pages
78
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978 92 4 150289 4
Copyright
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO