• Lancet · Oct 2013

    Mapping of available health research and development data: what's there, what's missing, and what role is there for a global observatory?

    • John-Arne Røttingen, Sadie Regmi, Mari Eide, Alison J Young, Roderik F Viergever, Christine Ardal, Javier Guzman, Danny Edwards, Stephen A Matlin, and Robert F Terry.
    • Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Institute for Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway. jrotting@hsph.harvard.edu
    • Lancet. 2013 Oct 12;382(9900):1286-307.

    AbstractThe need to align investments in health research and development (R&D) with public health demands is one of the most pressing global public health challenges. We aim to provide a comprehensive description of available data sources, propose a set of indicators for monitoring the global landscape of health R&D, and present a sample of country indicators on research inputs (investments), processes (clinical trials), and outputs (publications), based on data from international databases. Total global investments in health R&D (both public and private sector) in 2009 reached US$240 billion. Of the US$214 billion invested in high-income countries, 60% of health R&D investments came from the business sector, 30% from the public sector, and about 10% from other sources (including private non-profit organisations). Only about 1% of all health R&D investments were allocated to neglected diseases in 2010. Diseases of relevance to high-income countries were investigated in clinical trials seven-to-eight-times more often than were diseases whose burden lies mainly in low-income and middle-income countries. This report confirms that substantial gaps in the global landscape of health R&D remain, especially for and in low-income and middle-income countries. Too few investments are targeted towards the health needs of these countries. Better data are needed to improve priority setting and coordination for health R&D, ultimately to ensure that resources are allocated to diseases and regions where they are needed the most. The establishment of a global observatory on health R&D, which is being discussed at WHO, could address the absence of a comprehensive and sustainable mechanism for regular global monitoring of health R&D.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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