Knowledge management
For TDR, knowledge management is the development of policies and practices to manage the research cycle in ways that improves the use of the research findings. TDR’s approach is to support open science in a number of ways (see diagram that shows where TDR is active). Knowledge management activities include good practices to identify research priorities though to ensuring outputs, such as research papers and data, are communicated in ways that improve their understanding, their uptake and use in influencing behaviour, decision making and policy.
TDR seeks to shape the research by applying good practice methodology in setting research priorities. TDR offers support to in-country technical programmes using the Implementation Research Toolkit and led on the development of guidance for WHO staff.
TDR has also provided a series of reports and new tools to map the product pipeline for medicines, diagnostics and vaccines for neglected diseases working in partnership with the Product Development Partnerships.
TDR developed a new online resource to quickly locate and compare the Target Product Profiles of health products and created the Health Product Profile Directory to guide policy in this area.
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TDR has a policy of open access to publications from all of the research it supports as well as supporting various approaches to sharing the data that research is built on. It has integrated evidence-to-policy methods within its research cycle to maximise research uptake and use.
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