Mapping global health research investments, time for new thinking--a Babel Fish for research data.

Abstract:

:Today we have an incomplete picture of how much the world is spending on health and disease-related research and development (R&D). As such it is difficult to align, or even begin to coordinate, health R&D investments with international public health priorities. Current efforts to track and map global health research investments are complex, resource-intensive, and caveat-laden. An ideal situation would be for all research funding to be classified using a set of common standards and definitions. However, the adoption of such a standard by everyone is not a realistic, pragmatic or even necessary goal. It is time for new thinking informed by the innovations in automated online translation - e.g. Yahoo's Babel Fish. We propose a feasibility study to develop a system that can translate and map the diverse research classification systems into a common standard, allowing the targeting of scarce research investments to where they are needed most.

journal_name

Health Res Policy Syst

authors

Terry RF,Allen L,Gardner CA,Guzman J,Moran M,Viergever RF

doi

10.1186/1478-4505-10-28

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-09-01 00:00:00

pages

28

issn

1478-4505

pii

1478-4505-10-28

journal_volume

10

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