E-DRUG: Access to Medicines - Call for Expressions of Interest - Alliance
for Health Policy and Systems Research
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[Interesting opportunity for the researchers amongst the E-druggers! USD
1.2m available for projects, max 36 months. Thanks to Birgit for spotting.
WB]
Call for Expressions of Interest:
Health Policy and Systems Research in the field of Access to Medicines in
low- and middle-income countries.
In 2010, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (herein
referred to as the Alliance) initiated a new project on Access to Medicines
(ATM) with the aim of generating and increasing the use of policy-relevant
evidence on ATM in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The project
adopts a health system perspective on ATM, building on the network of
Alliance's partners and its expertise in health policy and systems research
(HPSR).
During its inception year, the ATM project commissioned a priority setting
exercise aimed at identifying priority policy concerns and a priority HPSR
agenda in ATM, suitable for LMICs1. Priority-research questions that emerged
from this exercise are the following:
- In risk protection schemes, which innovations and policies improve
equitable access to and appropriate use of quality medicines, sustainability of the scheme, and financial impact on beneficiaries?
- How do policies and other interventions into private markets impact on
access to and appropriate use of quality medicines?
- How can stakeholders use information and data routinely collected and
available in the system in a transparent way towards improving access to and use of quality medicines?
The Alliance is eager to support research projects in LMICs that will
address the priority research questions above and that will inform policies, strategies and interventions aimed at improving access to medicines. We are interested in learning about positive and negative effects on ATM of policies and interventions e.g. in risk protection schemes or private markets. The Alliance will support the publication and dissemination of the research results (peer-reviewed publications, journal supplements etc.). The Alliance will also ensure that policy lessons and evidence relevant for implementation arrangements in LMICs will reach policy- and decision-makers in national and international fora.
At this time, we have a total of US$ 1,200,000 to support six to ten
proposed research studies over a period of 18 to 36 months.
This call aims to explore the connections between medicines and three other
functions of health systems: health financing, governance and health
information.
The results from the recent priority-setting exercise performed by the
Alliance identified research questions in access to medicines that
demonstrate the need to explore the relationships between medicines and the
other building blocks of the health system and analyse the health system
determinants of access to medicines.
The deadline for submission of the Expression of Interest is 18 June 2012.
Description: http://bit.ly/KCWZke or
http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/alliancehpsr_atmcall_for_eoi.pdf
Grant application submission: http://bit.ly/IISZ0k