Journal article
Designing research funding schemes to promote global health equity: An exploration of current practice in health systems research
B Pratt, AA Hyder
Developing World Bioethics | WILEY | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1111/dewb.12136
Abstract
International research is an essential means of reducing health disparities between and within countries and should do so as a matter of global justice. Research funders from high-income countries have an obligation of justice to support health research in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) that furthers such objectives. This paper investigates how their current funding schemes are designed to incentivise health systems research in LMICs that promotes health equity. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were performed with 16 grants officers working for 11 funders and organisations that support health systems research: the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Comic Relief, Dor..
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Awarded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Dr Katharine A. Allen for assistance with data coding. This study was supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Sidney Sax Public Health Overseas Fellowship (Award No. 1052346) to BP. The contents of this article are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not reflect the views of the NHMRC. BP and AAH are also supported by the Future Health Systems Initiative, which is funded by the UK Department for International Development.