Abstract
The Future of TDR: The Need to Adapt to a Changing Global Health Environment
Highlights
The panel contends that TDR should increase its focus on research capacity strengthening, concentrate on neglected populations over neglected diseases, and strengthen its role in transdisciplinary research, by augmenting its capacity in social sciences
The review suggests that in its current form, TDR is overly bureaucratic and poorly aligned with the World Health Organization (WHO), that it has insufficient funds and flexibility to carry out its mandate, and that it is not readily able to adapt to the rapidly evolving and dynamic global health landscape
In order to ensure that TDR takes its proper role in supporting research and development (R&D) and training and to capitalize on the tremendous support the organization has among a broad constituency, especially among scientists in disease-endemic countries, the report recommends that TDR focus its efforts in four specific areas: (1) stewardship, (2) expanded interventional research, (3) research capacity strengthening, and (4) R&D for physical products that are not otherwise supported
Summary
The panel contends that TDR should increase its focus on research capacity strengthening, concentrate on neglected populations over neglected diseases, and strengthen its role in transdisciplinary research, by augmenting its capacity in social sciences. In spite of TDR’s clear successes and accomplishments since its inception, the panel concludes that TDR has not kept pace with a dynamic and changing world of global health research.
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