BACKGROUND Public health research provides evidence for practice across fields including health care, health promotion and health surveillance. Levels of public health research vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries, and are lowest in the EU's new member states (in Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean). However, these countries now receive most of the EU's Structural Fun...

Despite the critical role that health services and outcomes research should play in efforts to improve the quality of health care and address the unsustainable escalation in costs, federal support of these efforts has been complicated. Health services research has played a poor cousin to funding of traditional bench and clinical research; whereas the National Institute of Health’s 20041 roadmap...

This paper outlines the results of an assessment respecting the extent of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funding in population health intervention research from 2001 to 2006. The analysis is presented within the context of the barriers and enablers to the generation, support for and uptake of population health intervention research. Given data quality concerns, the assessment sho...

The authors are currently conducting a randomized controlled trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (UK) (SFP 10-14 UK), funded by the National Prevention Research Initiative (http:// www.npri.org.uk). The NPRI funding partners are Alzheimer’s Research Trust; Alzheimer’s Society; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council; British Heart Foundation; Cancer Research UK; C...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to describe how selected health research funding agencies active in low- and middle-income countries promote the translation of their funded research into policy and practice. METHODS We conducted inductive analysis of semi-structured interviews with key informants from a purposive sample of 23 national and international funding agencies that fund health research in Braz...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the perceptions of Australian health and medical researchers 4 years after the Wills Report recommended and led to a substantial increase in health and medical research funding in Australia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A telephone poll of 501 active health and medical researchers, conducted between 28 April and 5 May, 2003. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Researchers' v...