Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment

From across the globe, new proposals are surfacing to speed up the development of medical technologies for the world’s poorest countries. Visit our Idea Browser to explore current policy proposals.

We have recently begun the first of many assessments of policy innovations for neglected disease R&D. Learn more about these analyses: health product prizes, pooled funding & joint IP management.

Billions of people in the developing world suffer from diseases that mainstream R&D overlooks. New policy ideas to create incentives and address other barriers are emerging – along with a need for deep analysis.

An initiative to improve the lives of poor people around the globe by accelerating the development of much needed medical technologies for neglected diseases. Learn more.

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Featured Blog Post

Posted by Dr. Peter Hotez

Jun 28 2010

Addressing the “1-99” gap: a new generation of antipoverty vaccines for neglected diseases

A Guest Blog by Dr. Peter Hotez

The term “10-90 gap” has been used to describe a tragic reality that fewer than 10% of the world’s resources for research and development (R&D) are available for the conditions and diseases affecting 90% of the world’s population – that which is disproportionately represented by people living in low-income countries.

Featured Policy Innovations

The Synaptic Leap (TSL)

The Synaptic Leap (TSL) is an open source online biomedical research community that was launched in November of 2005 in partnership with the Tropical Disease Initiative. TSL’s mission is to facilitate a network of online communities that enable scientists to collaborate with one another and share their research on tropical diseases. Since there is a lower traditional profit incentive for R...

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