Assessing Global Health Research and Development Financing and Policy Innovations

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Client: Results for Development (for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)
Date: 2010

HLSP assessed a group of proposed pooled funding mechanisms for research and development for neglected diseases. These mechanisms include the Industry R&D Facilitation Fund (IRFF), the Fund for Research for Neglected Diseases (FRIND) and the Product Development Partnership Financing Facility (PDP-FF).

Through in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis, HLSP identified the contexts in which the proposals are likely to be successful, assessing the funding mechanisms’ ability to raise additional funding and their capacity to improve funding effectiveness and efficiency.

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Technical areas:

• Access to medicines
• Private sector
• TB, malaria and other communicable diseases