High-quality health systems: time for a revolution in research and research funding

Making health systems research work: time to shift funding to locally-led research in the South.

This week, the global health systems research community is gathered in Vancouver, Canada, for the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. The current movement for health systems research developed out of a need to strengthen health systems in low-income and middle-income countries. More than 25 years ago, the Commission on Health Research for Development published a report that repr...

Research and Collaboration Overview of Institut Pasteur International Network: A Bibliometric Approach toward Research Funding Decisions

Background Institut Pasteur International Network (IPIN), which includes 32 research institutes around the world, is a network of research and expertise to fight against infectious diseases. A scientometric approach was applied to describe research and collaboration activities of IPIN.   Methods Publications were identified using a manual search of IPIN member addresses in Science Citation Inde...

A new paradigm for health research funding.

Health research: need for a methodological revolution?

The polarization of research ideologies into two camps, qualitative versus quantitative, has been commented on by a number of authors. One of the more recent contributions to this debate comes from the journal Addiction in which McKeganey (1995) discusses the divide between the two underlying philosophies and concludes that this divide no longer serves a useful function. He then discusses a num...

Challenges in Health Research Funding: an opinion

Several countries in the world are able to support health research. This capability is dependent upon the economy. One measure of economies that is generally used is the country's gross national product (GNP). Thus, it is of interest to ascertain the GNPs of a few countries. The GNP of the USA in 2014 was approximately $17,555.2 billion. For comparison, the GNPs of India, Great Britain, and Jap...