In April 1999, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) published the document Paradigm Shift: Injury from problem to solution. This document provided a comprehensive overview of the burden of injury in Australia, and the current status of injury research. Future directions for injury research were identified. Later that year the Health Research Partnerships in Injury Committee ...

Public funders of health research have been widely criticized on the grounds that their allocations funding for disease-specific do not reflect relative burdens imposed by different diseases. For example, US National Institutes Health spends a much greater fraction its budget HIV/AIDS and smaller migraine than contribution to burden disease would suggest. Implicit in this criticism is normative...

A major challenge in the governance of research funding is priority-setting. As a former health minister in sub-Saharan Africa noted, ‘‘Everyone is chasing the money—reputable universities, the UN agencies, partnerships, civil society groups, so who is actually doing what developing countries really need, rather than what donors want?’’ [1] The past 15 years have been called revolutionary in gl...

In order to create a cohort of investigators who are engaged in health disparities research, scholarship, and practice, and to increase the amount of funding in the university that is invested in research focused on reducing health disparities, the San Diego EXPORT Center implemented 2 major initiatives: (1) the support of underrepresented minority (URM) junior faculty development and (2) the f...

Sex and gender have been demonstrated to influence all domains of health, from basic mechanisms of disease development to health service utilization. It is therefore no longer acceptable to ignore sex and gender issues in health research reports if these reports are to be deemed accurate. Funding agencies and journals have been identified as primary change agents in health research systems. Can...

Financing for global health is a critical element of research and development. Innovations in new vaccines are critically dependent on research funding given the large sums required, however estimates of global research investments are lacking. We evaluate infectious disease research investments, focusing on immunology and vaccine research by UK research funding organisations. In 1997-2010, £2....

There is little doubt that the maintenance and restoration of health are highly valued and fundamental to citizens in all countries. Among the many diseases affecting health, brain disorders are major causes for impaired quality of life. According to estimates by the World Health Organization, more than one billion people suffer from disorders of the central nervous system (WHO 2001). In Europe...