Health topics
Research
This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.
MeSH scope note: Critical and exhaustive investigation or experimentation, having for its aim the discovery of new facts and their correct interpretation, the revision of accepted conclusions, theories, or laws in the light of newly discovered facts, or the practical application of such new or revised conclusions, theories, or laws. (Webster, 3d ed)
Related sites
- Research policy
- Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR)
- Health Metrics Network
- HINARI Access to Research Initiative
- Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property
- Tropical Diseases, Special Programme for Research and Training (TDR)
- UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP)
- Vaccine research and development (Initiative for Vaccine Research)
- Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH)
- International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
- Collaborating centes
- Health policies and service delivery (African Region)
- Health systems research (Region of the Americas)
- Research Policy and Cooperation (Eastern Mediterranean Region)
- Health research (Western Pacific Region)