Fostering innovation for global health
Global Forum Update on Research for Health Volume 5
2008, Pro-Brook Publishing Limited, 192 pages (English). ISBN 978-2-940401-12-3
The Global Forum for Health Research
Full text available online [155p.] at: http://www.globalforumhealth.org/filesupld/global_update5/Update5_FullDoc.pdf
“……….Innovation for health is a vital driver of development. Drawing new ideas and discoveries from research, it may cross many sectors and disciplines involved in the development and application of a novel product or process.
The Global Forum for Health Research focuses on promoting an environment that fosters innovative solutions for the health of poor populations. In doing so, it places particular emphasis on health equity as the central goal, i.e. reducing health disparities within and between populations.
The fifth volume of the Global Forum Update on Research for Health provides insights into the newest thinking on innovation for global health.
Some 30 leading institutions and professionals from around the world reflect on how policy, social, technological and corporate innovations can be fostered for global health………”
Table of Contents
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| Foreword/Préface |
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| The scope and potential of innovation for health and health equity |
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| INNOVATING FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT | |
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| Research and innovation in Brazil: the institutional role of the Ministry of Health |
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| Health markets and future health systems: innovation for equity |
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| Strengthening the base: innovation and convergence in climate change and public health |
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| Global health diplomacy – a bridge to innovative collaborative action |
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| Hideyo Noguchi |
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| Health research and innovation: recent Spanish policies |
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| The changing landscape of research for health |
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| Global health and the foreign policy agenda |
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| “Policies for innovation”: evidence-based policy innovation – transforming constraints into opportunities |
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| SOCIAL INNOVATIONS | |
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| Interactions between populations, health workers and health programmes for prevention of malaria: teachings of an analysis “from below” |
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| Ethical aspects of innovation in health |
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| Ethics, evidence and innovation |
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| Seeding a global movement on neglected diseases |
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| Supporting implementation research partnerships for health systems strengthening: one foundation’s approach in sub-Saharan Africa |
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| The practical impact of research in South-East Asia funded by the Wellcome Trust |
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| Creating incentives to induce behavioural change and improve health: success and limitations of conditional cash transfer programmes |
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| TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS | |
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| Innovation and access: medicines for the poor – the IGWG strategy and plan of action |
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| The Noordwijk Medicines Agenda: a model for changing innovation for neglected and emerging infectious diseases |
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| Health dynamics, innovation and the slow race to make technology work for the poor |
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| Leapfrog technologies for health and development |
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| The IVI’s innovative approach to closing the gap between vaccines for industrialized and developing countries |
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| Commercializing African health research: building life science convergence platforms |
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| CORPORATE SECTOR-RELATED INNOVATIONS | |
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| Making drugs accessible to poor populations: a funding model |
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| Public-private partnerships drive innovation to improve the health of poor populations |
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| Innovations and incentives: why pharmaceutical companies are becoming interested in neglected tropical diseases |
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| Vision for a venturing ecosystem to generate global health innovation |
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| Beyond product: the private sector drive to perform with the purpose of alleviating global under-nutrition |
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| Innovating against hunger and under-nutrition |
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| Riders for Health: an award-winning social enterprise ensuring health care delivery across |
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| UNITAID: innovative financing to scale up access to medicines |
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| Threshold of evidence needed for health claims on functional foods |
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| The Lilly MDR-TB Partnership: innovation to fight a disease |
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