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
News release

A new self-financed Social Innovation in Health Initiative hub in India
21 June 2021
News release

Communicating research findings with a KISS
13 June 2021
News release

Supporting migration health research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
8 June 2021
News release

Twelve scientists in the WHO European Region awarded TDR grants on implementation and operational research on TB and COVID-19
20 April 2021
News release

Monitoring and evaluating social innovations in health

Publications

COP26 Key Messages on Climate Change and Health

5 November 2020
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Overview

The science is clear: we must urgently scale up action to respond to the threat of climate change to have a chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, and to adapt effectively and increase our resilience. Moreover, the public health motives for action have a strong science basis and are well evidenced and compelling.

In this briefing pack, key messages on climate change and health are highlighted across five priority areas of climate action: adaptation & resilience, energy transitions, nature, clean transport, and finance. This briefing pack highlights the health benefits of action in those areas, and hopes to contribute towards collective progress in the lead up to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).

This document was produced by UK Government with contributions from WHO, Wellcome Trust, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Global Climate and Health Alliance. Please note, that some of the slides may be developed further over time.

Published in November 2020

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Race to Zero Dialogue on Climate and Health

WHO Team
Environment, Climate Change and Health
Editors
UK Government, WHO, Wellcome Trust, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Global Climate and Health Alliance
Number of pages
34
Copyright
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO