Entitled "No Health Without Research", the report will be launched by WHO in May 2012. In advance of this landmark publication, WHO and PLoS Medicine jointly invite submission of papers to PLoS Medicine related to strengthening national health systems. Research papers, case studies, and non-research papers will all be considered.
Tikki Pang, Director, Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization, comments
"In times of financial crisis and competing priorities, it is even more important that developing countries commit themselves to a long-term investment in research as the only sustainable foundation for improving health outcomes and achieving health equity. WHO looks forward to collaborating with PLoS Medicine in enhancing the impact and dissemination of the Report."
A joint WHO/PLoS Medicine panel will select papers for inclusion in a special WHO/PLoS Collection to accompany the report. The impetus behind the report is better recognition of the importance of research evidence in healthcare decision making, and particularly so in the areas of health policy and health systems; WHO and PLoS wish to showcase examples of the best research underpinning practice and policy worldwide.
Papers on the following themes are welcome: experience in setting and implementing research priorities; experience building, strengthening, and retaining research capacity; initiatives and experiences to produce needed medical products; examples of appropriate use of evidence in development of policy; models for the organization of research; establishment of standards for responsible conduct of research; evaluation of impact of research investments; and experiences with foreign aid for research.
WHO and PLoS Medicine are particularly interested in submissions from low and middle income countries. Researchers wishing their papers to be considered for the Collection should submit directly to PLoS Medicine, describing why their work contributes to our global understanding of how research underpins healthcare. Ginny Barbour, Chief Editor of PLoS Medicine, comments: "This project combines two of PLoS Medicine's priorities; global health and the dissemination of rigorous research that will inform health policy."
For more information, the "No Health Without Research" Collection and Call for Papers is announced in a joint editorial published in PLoS Medicine.
A collection page, listing previously published PLoS articles in the eight specific areas that the World Health Report 2012 will focus on, will be published on 25 January 2011 and will be available via the following link: see here. This collection page will continue to be updated with new PLoS publications in the run up to World Report 2012.
The PLoS Medicine Editorial:
Funding: The PLoS Medicine Editors are each paid a salary by the Public Library of Science, and they wrote this editorial during their salaried time. No specific funding was received for this paper.
Competing Interests: The PLoS Medicine Editors' individual competing interests are at plosmedicine/static/editorsInterests.action. PLoS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLoS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salary is not linked to the number of papers published in the journal). TP and RT have declared no competing interests.
Citation: Pang T, Terry RF, The PLoS Medicine Editors (2011) WHO/PLoS Collection ''No Health Without Research'': A Call for Papers. PLoS Med 8(1): e1001008. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001008
Source: PLoS Medicine
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