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. 2011 Sep;8(9):e1001099.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001099. Epub 2011 Sep 27.

Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from childhood pneumonia by 2015

Igor Rudan  1 , Shams El Arifeen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Robert E Black, Abdullah Brooks, Kit Yee Chan, Mickey Chopra, Trevor Duke, David Marsh, Antonio Pio, Eric A F Simoes, Giorgio Tamburlini, Evropi Theodoratou, Martin W Weber, Cynthia G Whitney, Harry Campbell, Shamim A Qazi, WHO/CHNRI Expert Group on Childhood Pneumonia
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Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from childhood pneumonia by 2015

Igor Rudan et al. PLoS Med. 2011 Sep.
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Abstract

Igor Rudan and colleagues report the results of their consensus building exercise that identified health research priorities to help reduce child mortality from pneumonia.

Conflict of interest statement

ZAB is a member of the PLoS Medicine Editorial Board. SAQ is employed by the World Health Organization and undertook this research priority exercise on behalf of the Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, WHO. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. CHNRI's conceptual framework showing key steps required to get from investments in health research options to decrease in burden of death, disease, or disability.
The framework identifies criteria to discriminate between likelihoods of success of competing research options: (i) answerability; (ii) effectiveness; (iii) deliverability; (iv) maximum potential for disease burden reduction; and (v) predicted impact on equity in the population (right side). These criteria are not necessarily what drives investment decisions in health research today (left side) ,–.
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