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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 R4H AGENDA 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 R4H AGENDA Research Priorities Health technology development Diagnostics Genomics/Molecular technology Drug discovery and development Functional foods Hospital equipment and biomedical devices Health ICT R4H AGENDA 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 R4H AGENDA 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 • • • • • • Myocardial infarction Colorectal cancer Stroke Diabetes Mellitus Breast cancer Autoimmune/Immunologic diseases or deficiencies R4H AGENDA 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. THANK MUCH YOU VERY