Tackling the global health research financing emergency to sustain national health research ecosystems
Lancet
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2026 Apr 18;407(10538):1485-1488.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(26)00657-4.
Epub 2026 Apr 15.
Authors
Kumanan Rasanathan
1
,
Rachidatou Compaoré
2
,
Mickey Chopra
3
,
Fadi El-Jardali
4
,
Abdul Ghaffar
5
,
Christian Happi
6
,
Thomas Kariuki
7
,
Jeffrey Knezovich
8
,
Tolib Mirzoev
9
,
Suerie Moon
10
,
Ntobeko A B Ntusi
11
,
Kelechi Ohiri
12
,
Sudha Ramani
13
,
Minghui Ren
14
,
Diah Saminarsih
15
,
Vonthanak Saphonn
16
,
Helen Schneider
17
,
Prashanth N Srinivas
18
,
Soumya Swaminathan
19
,
Benjamin Tsofa
20
,
Rhoda K Wanyenze
21
,
John-Arne Røttingen
22
Affiliations
1
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO, Geneva CH-1217, Switzerland. Electronic address: rasanathank@who.int.
2
Institut Africain de Santé Publique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
3
World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
4
Knowledge to Policy Centre, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
5
Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
6
Institute of Genomics and Global Health, Redeemers University, Ede, Nigeria.
7
Science for Africa Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya.
8
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO, Geneva CH-1217, Switzerland.
9
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
10
Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
11
South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
12
National Health Insurance Agency, Abuja, Nigeria.
13
Mumbai, India.
14
School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
15
Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives, Jakarta, Indonesia.
16
University of Health Sciences, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
17
School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
18
Centre for Health Systems, Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru, India.
19
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India.
20
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.
21
School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
22
Wellcome Trust, London, UK.
PMID:
41997164
DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(26)00657-4
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