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Setting Priorities in Global Child Health Research Investments: Addressing Values of Stakeholders

We aim to identify main groups of stakeholders in the process of health research priority setting and propose strategies of addressing their systems of values. In three separate exercises that took place between March and June 2006 we interviewed three different groups of stakeholders: members of the global research priority setting network ; a diverse group of national-level stakeholders from South Africa ; and participants at the conference related to international child health held in Washington, DC, USA. At the global level, the wide and diverse group of respondents placed the greatest importance (weight) to the criterion of maximum potential for disease burden reduction, while the most stringent threshold was placed on the criterion of answerability in an ethical way.

priority setting; child health; health research; values; stakeholders

Thematic issue - Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development