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The Global Forum operates in a densely populated landscape in which a variety of actors engage in efforts to improve health and health equity.
The non-exhaustive list of actors below may be of help to you; it does not imply any endorsement by the Global Forum.
Development agencies/bilateral organizations
- Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
- Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
- Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
- Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)
- Department for International Development, United Kingdom (DFID)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Germany (GTZ)
- Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Development Cooperation (DGIS)
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- Irish Aid
- Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
- Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI)
- Netherlands Platform Global Health Policy and Health Systems Research
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
- President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PREPFAR)
- Sida Department for Research Cooperation (SAREC)
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Global health initiatives
- African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAVP)
- African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC)
- Alliance for Microbicide Development
- CONRAD
- Consortium for Industrial Collaboration in Contraceptive Research (CICCR)
- European Malaria Vaccine Initiative (EMVI)
- European Partnership for Global Health (EPGH)
- Global Alliance for Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis (GAELF)
- Global Campaign for Microbicides
- Global Health Initiative (GHI)
- Global Polio Eradication Initiative
- HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN)
- HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN)
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI)
- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
- International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN)
- International Trachoma Initiative
- International Vaccine Institute (IVI)
- Meningitis Vaccine Project
- Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP)
- Microbicides Development Programme (MDP)
- Micronutrient Initiative
- Multilateral Initiative on Malaria
- Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP) World Bank WHO
- Partners in Health (PIH)
- Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
- Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM)
- Safe Injection Global Network Alliance (SIGN)
- Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI)
- STOP TB Partnership
- The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
- TB Alliance
Innovation
Africa
- African Academy of Sciences (AAS)
- African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
- African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS Network)
- Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER)
Brazil
- Brazilian Innovation Agency – Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP)
- FIOCRUZ: The Ozwaldo Cruz Foundation
- International Trade Law and Development Institute (IDCID)
- Research Network on Local Productive and Innovative Systems, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- UNIEMP Institute
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Canada
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
China
- China Association for Science and Technology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Policy and Management
- Development Research Centre for the State Council of China
- International Poverty Reduction Center
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
European Union
- Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU)
- Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID)
- Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT)
Global
- Cochrane Collaboration
- Consortium on Science, Technology and Innovation for the South (COSTIS)
- Global Development Network (GDN)
- Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building systems (GLOBELICS)
- The “Catchup Network”
- Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
India
- Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
- Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
- Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
- Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
- Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
- Infosys
- National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)
- National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies
- Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
- Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS)
- Tata Group
- Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC)
Mexico
- Fundación Mexicana para la salud
Middle East
- Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF)
- Technology and Innovation Policy Research Centre, Islamabad Pakistan
Other Asia
- Asian Network for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (ANSTIP)
- Science and Technology Policy Asian Network (STEPAN)
- National S&T Development Agency, Ministry of Science & Technology, Thailand
- Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET)
South Africa
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- EGoli BIO Life Sciences Incubator
- Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
- Medical Research Council
- National Advisory Council on Innovation
- National Research Foundation
- Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study
- University of Cape Town
- University of KwaZulu-Natal
- University of the Western Cape
- University of the Witwatersrand (WITS)
United States
- Center for Global Development
- Creative and Innovative Economy Center (CIEC), George Washington University
- Earth Institute, Columbia University
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Multi-lateral institutions
- European Commission, Research Directorate-General
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme on Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP)
- UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)
- UNITAID
- United Nations
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- United Nations Research Institute for Development (UNRISD)
- United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
- World Bank - Health, Nutrition and Population
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
- Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (Alliance HPSR)
- Children's Environmental Health
- Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH)
- Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH)
- Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS)
- Health Metrics Network (HMN)
- Health Research Systems Analysis (HRSA) Initiative
- Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG)
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- WHO Regional Office for Europe (EURO)
- WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO)
- WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO)
- WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO)
- WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO)
- WHO Research Initiative
- Evidence and Information for Policy (EIP)
- WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR)
- WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (WHO ICTRP)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
Miscellaneous sources of information on research for health
- AED Satellife - Center for Health Information and Technology
- Afro-Nets
- Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA)
- BIREME - OPAS - OMS: Latin-American and Caribbean System on Health Sciences Information
- BMJ
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
- Cochrane Collaboration
- Communication Initiative Network
- Cordis - Community Research and Development Information Service
- Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED)
- ELDIS - documents in development policy, practice and research
- Equidad - listserv on equity, health and human development
- Equinet
- Equitap
- HINARI Access to Research Initiative
- International Council for Science (ICSU)
- International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA)
- International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
- Lancet
- People's Health Movement
- RAND Health
- R4D database on research for development supported by DFID
- SciDev.Net (Science and Development Network)
- SHARED (Scientists for Health and Research Development)
- TDR-Scientists List
- Tropical Diseases Research to Foster Innovation and Knowledge Application (TropIKA)
Public-private partnerships/product development partnerships
- AERAS Global TB Vaccine Foundation
- African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP)
- African Malaria Network Trust
- Diflucan Partnership
- Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)
- European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
- Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI)
- Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
- GAVI Alliance
- Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
- Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (GATB)
- Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI)
- Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health (IPPPH)
- Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH)
- International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN)
- International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM)
- Lilly MDR-TB Partnership
- Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI)
- Mectizan Donation Programme (MDP)
- Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)
- NetMark - Insecticide-treated bednets
Research initiatives
- Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI)
- Initiative for Cardiovascular Health Research in Developing Countries (IC-Health)
- Road Traffic Injuries Research Network (RTIRN)
- Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)