NATIONAL UNIFIED HEALTH RESEARCH AGENDA
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RESEARCH FOR HEALTH
RESEARCH AGENDA
Gilbert Kokwaro, PhD
Consortium for National Health Research
National R4H Agenda
PURPOSE
To provide focus and direction on health research and
development efforts that will address the country’s
priority health concerns
To serve as a guide where policy makers, funding and
donor agencies and researchers from public and private
sectors;
To assist in providing evidence based solutions to
pressing national and County health problems
To serve as basis to maximize resource utilization and
minimize duplication of research efforts
R4H AGENDA
RESEARCH PRIORITIES
R4H AGENDA
Research Priorities
Major Research Areas
Health financing
Health service delivery
Health technology development
Socio-environmental health concerns
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Research Priorities
Health financing
Financial risk protection
How to eliminate, if not greatly reduce the
amounts patients must pay out of pocket to
avail of health services
How to provide Kenyans substantial
financial risk protection.
R4H AGENDA
Research Priorities
Health service delivery
Improving access to quality health services
Novel ways of upgrading and equipping facilities to
provide quality services
Novel ways of enhancing staff capacity thro’ a)
improved conditions of service, and b) relevant
training
Focusing on national/county-specific health priorities
including MDGs to identify knowledge gaps
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Research Priorities
Health technology development
Diagnostics
Genomics/Molecular technology
Drug discovery and development
Functional foods
Hospital equipment and biomedical devices
Health ICT
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Research Priorities
Health technology development
Diagnostics
development
of diagnostics (point of care and
confirmatory) for priority infectious diseases and
non-communicable diseases
for early detection and/or prediction of disease and
mortality
will also look at genetic or biological markers
associated with non-communicable diseases
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Research Priorities
Diagnostics (cont’d)
Priority diseases:
Infectious diseases
•Malaria in pregnancy
•MDR/ XDR TB
•Drug-Resistant Malaria
•Influenza-like illness
•Neglected Tropical Diseases
•Sepsis
•HIV
•Hepatitis
Non-communicable diseases
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Myocardial infarction
Colorectal cancer
Stroke
Diabetes Mellitus
Breast cancer
Autoimmune/Immunologic
diseases or deficiencies
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Research Priorities
Socio-Environmental health concerns
Environmental and climate change
Understanding how disease transmission is affected
by environmental (biological, chemical) and sociocultural factors.
Health social sciences (including community
development)
understanding how socio-cultural factors affect
health and dynamics of disease.
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