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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Is this the world's best investment? The success of global health R&D over the past 20 years is a resounding one - and yet R&D funding to tackle neglected diseases has fallen since the pandemic. In breakthrough work, we find a staggering return on that investment in terms of societal benefit.
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Vanessa Candeias
Strategy and External Affairs Lead
Andrew Tuttle
Chief Strategy Officer
making an impact
Global health is the world's best investment
In breakthrough work, we analyse the impact of global health R&D, showing the return on investment in health and economic terms for the first time. We look at the products which have been gamechangers over the last two decades and model the future returns of health innovations which transform the health and economic outlook for vulnerable populations.
PDF of the global reportInteractive report findings$405
returned in societal value for every $1 invested
30%
drop in deaths from poverty-related diseases in last 20 years
Spotlight on societal return on investment
Explore this analysis in more detail and find other related reports on the impact of global health R&D.
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Impact Framework
A global network of experts collaborated for two years to develop this comprehensive set of metrics that create an impact assessment framework for global health R&D.
Return on Innovation: Why Global Health R&D is a Smart Investment for the United States
This joint report with GHTC looks at the return on the United States' investment in global health R&D
Doing Well by Doing Good
US government funding for global health R&D has supported dozens of breakthrough innovations over the last 16 years, and generated billions of dollars in economic benefit, reveals...
Event
World Health Assembly
27 May – 1 June 2024, Geneva, Switzerland
The Impact of Global Health R&D report was launched at the World Health Assembly in May 2024. Bringing world-leading global health experts together in an immersive 360 degree cinematic experience, we brought the staggering return on investment to life in compelling way.
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“This is an immensely hopeful report. But it’s a report that also serves as a call to arms. Rich countries need to get their act together, fast, or this opportunity will slip through our fingers, with poor children in Africa and South Asia paying the price.”
Dylan Matthews, Vox
This is the world’s best investment, June 2024
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Impact Global Health in the news: The First Vaccine for Malaria Received Major Regulatory Approval in 2015.
Stephanie Nolen looks at the delays in the first malaria vaccine roll out, and what lessons we can learn from this. Impact Global Health's report on the Impact of Global Health R&D is quoted.
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Impact Global Health in the news: This is the World's Best Investment
A new study from Impact Global Health finds that combating malaria, TB, and HIV pays for itself 405 times over.
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Methodology & assumptions for the Impact of Global Health R&D report
The methodology and the assumptions we used to develop the Impact of Global Health R&D report
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An explainer of our ROI calculations for the Impact of Global Health R&D report
How we calculated ROI for our Impact of Global Health R&D report
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Investment in R&D for neglected diseases delivers an outstanding societal return on investment
Key messages from the 2024 landmark report on the Impact of Global Health R&D
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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 good case for investment, but an outstanding one.
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Malaria product development: helping to deliver Zero Malaria
We reviewed our Infectious Disease R&D Tracker to uncover new products in development for malaria
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Tuberculosis
The development of new tools is crucial to achieving the ambitious End TB Strategy targets
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Doing Well by Doing Good
US government funding for global health R&D has supported dozens of breakthrough innovations over the last 16 years, and generated billions of dollars in economic benefit, reveals this analysis from GHTC and Impact Global Health
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