Who Sets the Global Health Research Agenda? The Challenge of Multi-Bi Financing
Open Access
- 25 September 2012
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 9 (9) , e1001312
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001312
Abstract
As part of a cluster of articles critically reflecting on the theme of “no health without research,” Devi Sridhar discusses a major challenge in the governance of research funding: “multi-bi” financing that allows the priorities of funding bodies to dictate what health issues and diseases are studied.Keywords
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