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• Research Capacity Building to Empowerment
• Making fruits of Research Sustainable
• Rob Ridley
• Director WHO/TDR

Defeating Malaria Together Brussels, November 28,
2006
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Research Capacity links to Development

• World Bank
• Countries will be unable to correctly identify
  public health needs and choose effective packages
  of health services if they lack ST capacity
• Commission for Africa
• 'Donor governments should also fund research,
  led by Africa, to boost the continent's science,
  engineering and technology capacity'

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Vision
An effective global research effort on infectious
diseases of poverty in which disease endemic
countries play a pivotal role
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Implications for Malaria Community

• To foster the vision
• To focus activity where there is need and where
  organization has a comparative advantage

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Modelling the system
New knowledge / discoveries
New and improved tools
New and improved interventions
New and improved strategies
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Many Players
Grand Challenges
New and improved tools
New and improved tools
New and improved tools
New and improved interventions
New and improved strategies
New knowledge / discoveries
NIH, European Commission, Wellcome
Trust, Research councils, etc
DNDi
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Some significant needs / gaps
Empowerment, pivotal role
Grand Challenges
New and improved tools
New and improved tools
New and improved tools
New and improved tools
New and improved tools
New and improved tools
New and improved interventions
New and improved strategies
New knowledge / discoveries
NIH, European Commission, Wellcome
Trust, Research councils, etc
DNDi
Stewardship, effective global effort
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Knowledge Management and Stewardship
Guidelines and Capacity for Ethical
Review Regional networks leading to legislative
changes Africa - Pan African Bioethics
INitiative
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Sustainable Capability Strengthening
Research systems
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Capacity Building / Empowerment in Africa
example of Multilateral Initiative for Malaria
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Bridging Interfaces Implementation Research
Empowerment, pivotal role
Capacity, Empowerment, led by
New and improved tools
New and improved methods
New and improved strategies
New knowledge / discoveries
Effective global effort, Stewardship
Stewardship, effective global effort
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The Ears of the Hippopotamus
Am.J.Trop.Med.Hyg. 641-11, 2001.
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• Home Management of Malaria (and Coartem)

• Innovative packaging to assist compliance
• Evidence of effectiveness within context of use
  'close to home'

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• Opportunities for rectal artesunate

• Suppository for children unable to take oral
  medication
• Referral to centre for treatment
• Promising data from community trials

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Take-home Messages

• Research capacity and utilisation with local
  stakeholdership and ownership of research is an
  integral part of solution it is NOT an optional
  extra!
• Knowledge management driven stewardship through
  agreed frameworks and common action critical to
  avoid fragmentation
• Multilateral efforts are needed to complement /
  leverage bilateral approaches at country level

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Take-home thought

• Research capacity

Research Utilisation
Empowerment
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EU engagement valued and critical

• FP 7
• EDCTP
• Many lead academic institutions
• Industry support for training / experience
• Promotion of research capacity as integral
  component of health systems capacity and
  prerequisite for development