[EQ] The Global Health System: Linking Knowledge with Action-Learning from Malaria

The Global Health System: Linking Knowledge with Action—Learning from Malaria

Gerald T. Keusch1*, Wen L. Kilama2, Suerie Moon3, Nicole A. Szlezák3, Catherine M. Michaud4

 

1 Department of International Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America,
2 African Malaria Network Trust, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,
3 Sustainability Science Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America,
4 Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Med 7(1): e1000179. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000179

Available online at:
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000179

 

“…….Conducting basic research, translating it into the development of new health tools, and delivering products to patients in need of them are core functions of an effective global health system [1]. Yet performing these functions is a particular challenge for diseases that primarily affect the poor in low-income countries, partly because efforts to understand diseases and develop tools to combat them are often detached from efforts to deliver interventions.

 

For malaria, the global health system has evolved over the past century to integrate better the research, development, and delivery (R&D&D) of new products to treat and control the disease. This article traces that evolution and extracts lessons applicable to the many new challenges currently facing the global health system…..”

 

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