Ongoing Research to Improve Health Risk/Hazard Appraisal

Extending the Appraisal Tendency Framework to Improve Health and Healthcare

The growth of a robust body of research examining emotions and decision-making (Lerner, Li, Valdesolo, & Kassim, 2015) and an unprecedented societal focus on behavioral prevention of disease suggests that now is the time to leverage emotion science to improve health and health care. Extending the appraisal tendency framework (Lerner & Keltner, 2000), we predict how emotions may interact with si...

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics

Sharing Research Data to Improve Public Health

Commentary As a charitable research foundation, the Wellcome Trust is strongly committed to ensuring that the outputs of the research we support—including research publications and data—can be accessed and used in a manner that delivers the greatest possible benefit to global health. In common with other research funders around the world, we believe that many of the increasingly rich and comple...

Defining Research to Improve Health Systems

Robert Terry and colleagues present working definitions of operational research, implementation research, and health systems research within the context of research to strengthen health systems.

Sharing research data to improve public health.

The purpose of medical research is to analyse and understand health and disease. A key and expensive element is the study of populations to explore how interactions between behaviour and environment, in the context of genetic diversity, determine causation and variation in health and disease. As funders of public health research, we need to ensure that research outputs are used to maxi mise kno...