Resources and further reading

• A checklist for health research priority setting: nine common themes of good practice
• A new deal for global health R&D? The recommendations of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development (CEWG)
• Informing the establishment of the WHO Global Observatory on Health Research and Development: a call for papers 
• International cooperation to improve access to and sustain effectiveness of antimicrobials
• Global platform to inform investments for health R&D
  
• Mapping of available health research and development data: what's there, what's missing, and what role is there for a global observatory?
  
• The mismatch between the health research and development (R&D) that is needed and the R&D that is undertaken: an overview of the problem, the causes, and solutions
  
• Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola

WHO web pages and publications 

• A research and development Blueprint for action to prevent epidemics
  
• Global action plan on antimicrobial resistance 
  
• Global health estimates: deaths, disability-adjusted life year (DALYs), years of life lost (YLL) and years lost due to disability (YLD) by cause, age and sex, 2000–2012
  
• Resolution WHA66.22. Follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination