Enhanced collaboration between US NIH and WHO on biomedical research

描述（由申请人提供）：世界卫生组织（WHO）是卫生事务的主要技术机构，是国际卫生工作的指导和协调机构。今天，世卫组织有194个会员国。世卫组织通过六项核心职能实现其目标，其中包括制定研究议程和促进宝贵知识的产生、翻译和传播。 世卫组织在卫生研究方面的作用和责任最近得到了世界卫生大会的认可。世卫组织利用其权力下放的结构在全球、区域和国家各级开展研究工作。为了实现其与研究有关的目标，世卫组织与世界各地的政府和其他研究组织保持有效合作，世卫组织合作中心网络就是证明。世卫组织涵盖传染性和非传染性疾病、地方病、流行病以及新出现的健康威胁等项目，其研究组合与美国国立卫生研究院及其27个中心和专门研究所中的许多中心的目标具有广泛的互补性。基于世卫组织和NIH之间富有成效的合作记录，本申请的目的是支持在生物医学研究领域加强合作的框架。为实现世卫组织和国家卫生研究院的共同目标而努力，其目的是利用两个组织各自的优势。在生物医学研究领域，国家卫生研究所的重点是基础研究，与世卫组织的应用型研究工作相结合，并支持与研究有关的培训工作，促进与研究有关的资源，传播科学知识，评估与卫生有关的研究和良好做法。为了实施拟议的合作努力，世卫组织依靠其非常广泛的计划经验，其作为研究赞助者的经验，其召集世界领先专家和管理透明独立磋商进程的能力，其分散的基础设施包括6个区域办事处和146个国家办事处，以及持续的计划和财政承诺。世卫组织建议，在该外地行动框架的财政限度内，每年就评估和应用新颖和创新的生物医学研究成果，在低收入和中等收入国家制定优先的公共卫生干预措施问题举行专家磋商。在支持两个机构的共同目标和目的方面，扩大合作活动的余地很大。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The World Health Organization (WHO) is the lead technical agency in health matters, acting as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work. Today, WHO counts 194 Member States. WHO fulfills its objectives through six core functions, which include the shaping of the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge. WHO's roles and responsibilities in health research have recently been endorsed by the World Health Assembly. WHO utilizes its decentralized structure to implement its research efforts at global, regional and country level. To achieve its objectives related to research, WHO maintains effective collaboration with governmental and other research organizations throughout the world, as evidenced by the network of WHO Collaborating Centers. Covering programs on communicable and non-communicable diseases, endemic, epidemic as well as emerging health threats, WHO addresses a research portfolio with broad complementarity to the goals of NIH and many of its 27 centers and specialized institutes. Based on a track-record of fruitful collaboration between WHO and NIH, the objective of this application is to support a framework of enhanced collaboration in the area of biomedical research. Working towards shared goals of WHO and NIH, it is intended is to build on the respective strengths of both Organizations. In the field of biomedical research, NIH's more basic research emphasis combines with WHO's application oriented research efforts, and its support to research-related training efforts, the fostering of research-related resources, the dissemination of scientific knowledge and the assessment of health-related research and good practices. To implement the proposed collaborative effort, WHO relies on its very broad program experience, its experience as research sponsor, its ability to convene world-leading experts and manage transparent an independent consultation processes, its decentralized infrastructure comprising six regional offices and 146 country offices, and a continuous programmatic and financial commitment. Within the financial limits of this RFA, WHO proposes to conduct annual expert consultations on the assessment and application of novel and innovative biomedical research findings for the development of priority public health interventions in low and middle income countries. There is very significant room for expansion of collaborative activities in support of both institutions shared goals and objectives.