Since the turn of this century there has been a succession of United Kingdom policy initiatives to encourage research funding agencies, universities and researchers to reconsider how they engage with citizens and communities. Although most funding agencies now explicitly promote PE within research, ...
The Health Research Board (HRB) comprises 16 members appointed by the Minister of Health, with eight of the members being nominated on the co-joint nomination of the universities and colleges. The main functions of the HRB are to promote or commission health research, to promote and conduct ep...
Dr Donna Ah Chee has been named as the recipient of the 2024 Menzies Medallion. The award is the highest offered by Menzies School of Health Research. Awarded by the Menzies Board, the honour recognises Dr Ah Chee’s outstanding health advocacy, leadership and unwavering commitment to working t...
Funding research on women’s health Women’s health research has long been underfunded, in part owing to stigmas associated with conditions that primarily affect women. Equitable health research funding requires transparency from funding agencies, investment in women-centred innovations, support for women...
The delivery of good outcomes from human health research is entirely dependent on the proper functioning of the attendant regulatory systems. This article focuses on the processes of regulation themselves, and how these might be better understood, so that regulators and other stakeholders have a stron...
Accurate, consistent assessment of outcomes and impacts is challenging in the health research partnerships domain. Increased focus on tool quality, including conceptual, psychometric and pragmatic characteristics, could improve the quantification, measur
Funders of medical research the world over are increasingly seeking, in research assessment, to complement traditional output measures of scientific publications with more outcome-based indicators of societal and economic impact. In the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HE...
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A number of institutions have ongoing research that may support the further use of preference data in pricing and reimbursement decisions, such as the following: The decision-maker survey also pointed to further pilot work not yet in the public domain, including the use of ranking methods to eli...
Funding This study was funded by an unrestricted grant from the Health Service Executive Clinical Design and Innovation Office (2019–2021). Author information Authors and Affiliations School of Medicine, Faculty of Education and Health Sciences, SLÁINTE Research and Education Alliance in General Pract...