The Impact of Global Health R&D
Investing in global health R&D pays off. It yields a high health and economic return to society. For every dollar spent, there is a societal return of $405. This is not just a...
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A better world starts with more equitable global health. Impact Global Health is an essential partner, collaborator and counsel to anyone looking to positively impact historically neglected and underfunded health issues.
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Reports and Insights
Discover the insights that two decades of global health data have given us.
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G-FINDER 2024 Landscape of Emerging Infectious Disease Research & Development report: Lessons Learned
This is our third report analysing global investment into research and development for emerging infectious diseases
Landscape of Diagnostics Development for Preterm Labour, Pre-eclampsia & Intrauterine Growth Restriction
With PTL, PE and IUGR still posing major health threats mothers and babies, this report is encouraged to see a relatively large number of diagnostics being developed or refined...
Impacting Global Health: Our Vision for the Future
A blog outlining Impact Global Health's future vision by Andrew Tuttle, our Chief Strategy Officer
Future Insights: Shaping the Global Health R&D landscape
Dr Sabastine Wakdok, our Director of Research looks at how we're taking our analysis and insights to the next level
Impact at scale
Women's Health Hub
Gender bias in R&D means that women's health is suffering. The conditions and experiences which disproportionately, differently or exclusively affect women are persistently overlooked, leading to worse health outcomes and social and economic inequities. We've launched this hub to look at the whole picture.
The G-FINDER 2023 report on sexual & reproductive health R&D funding shows that it is not equal: the numbers for non-maternal conditions have enjoyed growth since 2018, while investment in maternal health has languished.
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Data
Tracking global health investments: discover G-FINDER's impact
G-FINDER is the gold-standard tracker of R&D funding for new products and technologies for global health. Updated annually, this is the evidence base informing all global health advocacy, investment and policy change.
The case for change: Explore funding trends over time, where there is innovation and where there are gaps.
Drivers of impact: Understand which initiatives are gaining strength and where there are weaknesses in global health R&D impact.
Explore G-FINDER DataInfectious Disease R&D Tracker
Approved products and technologies, as well as candidates in the development pipeline, for global health priorities.
Maternal Health Pipeline
Critical medicines, diagnostics and drugs approved and in the development pipeline for the most significant pregnancy-related conditions
Snakebite Envenoming Medicines Database
Snakebite envenoming medicines investigated or approved since 2015.
News & views
News and opinions from the world of global health R&D.
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Landscape of Medicines Development for Five Pregnancy-Related Conditions 2000-2021
An analysis of the state of innovation in maternal health drug R&D
Policy Cures Research (now Impact Global Health)
31 July 2021
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Snapshot of the R&D landscape of PPH devices 2000-2023
An up-to-date snapshot of the R&D landscape for PPH devices
Policy Cures Research (now Impact Global Health)
1 May 2023
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0Analysis of a maternal health medicines pipeline database 2000–2021: New candidates for the prevention and treatment of fetal growth restriction
This article reports the candidate medicines within the Maternal Health Pipeline Tracker for fetal growth restriction, identifying those with the highest potential for translation.
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Tools
Impact Global Health develops practical frameworks and tools which you can use to do your own analyses and draw your own conclusions about the most effective ways to impact global health.
Impact Framework
The first comprehensive assessment framework of impact metrics for global health R&D, developed over two years with a global network of collaborators.
100 Days Mission Scorecard
Developed with the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat, this scorecard takes the pulse of the world's readiness to make diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines globally available within the first 100 days of a pandemic threat.
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Communications & press kits
Join us in creating global health impact for the world's neglected diseases and conditions with our media and communications resources and tools.