Published 25 November 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a2713
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2713

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Developing countries should have a greater say in local research agendas

Robert Walgate

1 Bamako

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Developing countries should have more say in the research that takes place in their territories, an international meeting has concluded.

The conclusion of the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health also recommended that health research in developing countries should be broadened to cover social and other determinants. The forum was held in Bamako, Mali, last week and was attended by representatives from 59 countries.

The forum also endorsed the four recommendations of the high level task force on scaling up research and learning on health systems of the director general of the World Health Organization, a draft of which was in circulation at Bamako.

Ok Pannenborg, senior health adviser for the World Bank’s Africa region, told the BMJ, "Research for health [a more embracing concept than ‘health research’] has moved to a higher level.

"Goethe said new knowledge is not enough—we must apply it—and that willingness is not . . . [Full text of this article]


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