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The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed the creation of a US$11.5 million observatory to collate global data on funding for health research. The proposal is presented in a draft working paper, ‘A Global Health R&D Observatory – Developing A Case For Its Development’, published last month.
The WHO says current data collections are patchy, making it difficult to align health research funding to global health priorities.
“Efforts to track and map global health research investments are complex, incomplete, resource-intensive, and caveat-laden… none are comprehensive and all come with certain limitations in the diseases they cover,” it says.
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