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

29 May 2024
News release

New report highlights the impact of global health R&D for neglected diseases
23 June 2021
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A new self-financed Social Innovation in Health Initiative hub in India
21 June 2021
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Communicating research findings with a KISS
13 June 2021
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Supporting migration health research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
8 June 2021
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Twelve scientists in the WHO European Region awarded TDR grants on implementation and operational research on TB and COVID-19
20 April 2021
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Monitoring and evaluating social innovations in health

Publications

Mask use in the context of COVID-19

Interim guidance

1 December 2020
 | COVID-19: Infection prevention and control / WASH
Mask use in the context of COVID-19
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Overview

This document provides updated guidance on mask use in health care and community settings, and during home care for COVID-19 cases. It is intended for policy makers, public health and infection prevention and control professionals, health care managers and health workers.

The Annex provides advice on how to manufacture non-medical masks. It is intended for those making non-medical masks at home and for mask manufacturers.

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Advice on the use of masks for children in the community in the context of COVID-19

Q&A: Children and masks related to COVID-19

WHO Team
Emergencies Preparedness, WHO Headquarters (HQ)
Number of pages
22
Reference numbers
WHO Reference Number: WHO/2019-nCoV/IPC_Masks/2020.5
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