This Primer contains tools and resources to help navigate the medical research and development (R&D) paradigm. The Primer provides information on discovery research; translational research; clinical research; regulatory application and approval; and non-profit actors and their roles in the R&D process.
Useful Resources
Getting Started: A Medical Research and Development Primer
FasterCures: 2012
Getting Started: A medical research and development primer
FasterCures: 2012
This Primer contains tools and resources to help navigate the medical research and development (R&D) paradigm. The Primer provides information on discovery research; translational research; clinical research; regulatory application and approval; and nonprofit actors and their roles in the R&D process.
Getting workers’ interests on the WTO agenda: an action guide for trade unionists
In the run up to the WTO’s 6th Ministerial Conference in December 2005 in Hong Kong, this trade union action guide provides background information as well as a number of tools with which to exert pressure on national governments and trade negotiators to ensure that the concerns trade unionists share globally about the latest round of negotiations are dealt with.
Global DOTS expansion plan
This report provides the first assessment of the status of TB control financing and the resources needed to expand DOTS coverage in the 22 countries with the highest estimated number of cases. Available from the CDS Information Resource Centre.
Contact: cdsdoc@who.int
GLOBAL FUND OBSERVER (GFO) NEWSLETTER
The GFO Newsletter is an independent source of news, analysis and commentary about the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. The GFO Newsletter is emailed to subscribers once or twice a month.
Global Fund Releases Governance Handbook
Global Fund for AIDS TB and Malaria
A new Governance Handbook issued by the Global Fund describes the Fund's various structures and governance processes. The handbook was conceived primarily as an operations guide for members of the Global Fund Board and their delegations, but it has also been made public. Separate sections of the handbook are devoted to topics such as the history of the Global Fund, the roles of the Board and its committees, and the current funding model and how it may evolve.
Global Health and Human Rights Database
Lawyers Collective and the O'Neill Institute
The Global Health and Human Rights Database is a free and fully searchable online database of more than 1000 judgments, constitutions and international instruments on the intersection between health and human rights.
Global health as seen by Congo's sapeurs
Muvudi M: Health Financing Africa, 22 December 2015
Health Financing Africa host a cartoon showing a satirical response to the global development agendas. This cartoon draws on the "Sape" movement (The Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People) in Brazzaville and Kinshasa. Universal Health Coverage figures into the new Sustainable Development Goals and, with a wink, Michel Muvudi (Democratic Republic of the Congo) warns us not to be overly optimistic about the impact of such international objectives at the country level.
Global Health Observatory website
World Health Organisation
The Global Health Observatory theme pages provide data and analyses on global health priorities. Each theme page provides information on global situation and trends highlights, using core indicators, database views, major publications and links to relevant web pages on the theme. Comprehensive information is also provided on the Millennium Development Goals. The Health Equity section is focused on urban health and women and health.
Global Health Primer
Bio Ventures for Global Health (BVGH): Last updated 15 August 2012
The Global Health Primer connects the innovators that drive research and development for new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics to the neglected diseases where innovation is desperately needed. It provides a source of compiled and synthesised information for 25 neglected diseases of the developing world and the drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics in use or in development for the management of these diseases. The Primer tracks and analyses progress in global health research and development, provides an evidence base to support decision making, policy change and action, and brings new innovators to the table to address the main medical needs of poor people.