Global engagement

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.
   

Recent news

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New report highlights the impact of global health R&D for neglected diseases
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A new self-financed Social Innovation in Health Initiative hub in India
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Communicating research findings with a KISS
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Supporting migration health research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
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Twelve scientists in the WHO European Region awarded TDR grants on implementation and operational research on TB and COVID-19
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Monitoring and evaluating social innovations in health

Publications

WHO handbook for guideline development, 2nd Edition

18 December 2014
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WHO handbook for guideline development, 2nd Edition
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Overview

This handbook provides step-by-step guidance on how to plan, develop and publish a WHO guideline. It covers the methods, processes and procedures for producing a document that meets WHO standards. 

Additional chapters of this handbook containing detailed guidance on selected topics are also available and new chapters will continue to be added.

Additional chapters

Chapter 14: Strong recommendation when the evidence is low quality

Chapter 15: Using evidence from qualitative research to develop WHO guidelines

Chapter 16: Decision-making for guideline development at WHO

Chapter 17: Developing guideline recommendations for tests or diagnostic tools

Chapter 18: Incorporating a complexity perspective into WHO guidelines

Available in the following languages

Arabic | Chinese | Spanish

WHO Team
Quality Assurance of Norms and Standards
Editors
World Health Organization
Number of pages
180
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978 92 4 154896 0
Copyright
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