• EB140/22. Follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination Terms of reference of the expert committee on health research and development
  Report by the WHO Director-General prepared for the 140th session of WHO’s Executive Board (2017). Provides the terms of reference of the expert committee on health R&D as requested in resolution WHA69.23 by World Health Assembly.
  

• EB140/21. Follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination
  Report by the WHO Director-General prepared for the 140th session of WHO’s Executive Board (2017). Outlines the terms of reference for the Global Observatory on Health R&D as requested by resolution WHA69.23 by World Health Assembly.
  

• WHA69/23. Follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and coordination
  World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution from the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly (2016) acknowledging the central role of the Global Observatory on Health R&D and requesting the Director-General to establish a WHO Expert Committee on Health Research and Development to provide technical advice on the prioritization of health research and development.
  

• A69.40. Follow-up to the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination ‒ Report of the open-ended meeting of Member States
  This report (2016) refers to the Observatory and provides an update on the project, including comments about the demonstration version. It also discusses additional activities towards the Observatory’s goals and objectives.
  

• EB138/39. Follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination
  Report by the WHO Director-General prepared for the 138th session of WHO’s Executive Board (2015). Outlines points for EB to consider in relation to an open-ended meeting of Member States to discuss progress following adoption of resolution WHA66.22 by World Health Assembly.
  

• WHA66.22. Follow up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and coordination
  Resolution from the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly (2013) resolution requesting the WHO Director-General “to establish a global health research and development observatory within WHO’s Secretariat in order to monitor and analyse relevant information on health research and development (...) with a view to contributing to the identification of gaps and opportunities for health research and development and defining priorities”.
  

• A66/23. Follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination
  Report by the WHO Director-General for the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly (2013) on the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and development: Financing and coordination (CEWG).
  

• WHA63.28. Establishment of a consultative expert working group on research and development: financing and coordination
  Resolution from the Sixty-third World Health Assembly (2010) urging Member States to support the work of a Consultative Expert Working Group; meanwhile it also requests that the WHO Director-General makes proposals and their assessment criteria available electronically and establishes the Consultative Expert Working Group.

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• Research and Development to Meet Health Needs in Developing Countries: Strengthening Global Financing and Coordination 
  Report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (2012). This report was presented to the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly and led to the later resolution WHA66.22 in 2013. It makes the case for establishing a Global Health R&D Observatory and relevant advisory mechanisms under the auspices of WHO.
  

• Research and Development - Coordination and Financing
  Report by the WHO Expert Working Group on Research and Development. This was published in 2010 in response to the request of the World Health Assembly in WHA resolution 61.21. It is based on three sources of evidence: published literature for the analysis of financing; qualitative research for the coordination of research and development financing and research; and an evaluation tool to evaluate innovative health research and development financing proposals.