Research priorities
Priority is given to innovative proposals designed to stimulate increased quality, visibility or availability of research at a national, regional or international level, including:
epidemiological studies focusing on specific health problems, e.g. identification of risk factors of diseases, sociobehavioural studies such as knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) studies and ecological studies such as geographic information system (GIS) studies
integrated research in communicable diseases, vector control studies, control of reservoirs of disease in collaboration with veterinary personnel (zoonotic diseases) and surveillance of communicable diseases
evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic services and their conformity to recent guidelines, and predictors of diagnostic delay and incomplete cure
social and economic determinants of medicine availability and use, and inequalities of access to proven therapies
research on innovative methods for promoting participation of the private health sector in different activities of prevention and control
evaluation of new diagnostic tools applicable in field conditions
health economics studies evaluating different strategies of disease prevention and control
research on the quality of information systems for communicable diseases, evaluation of the reliability of collected data, identification of determinants of inadequate information and intervention studies for improvement of the quality of information recorded and delivered by health facilities/ministries of health concerning communicable diseases.