Regional strategy on research for health 2018-2022

Overview

Research is WHO's constitutional mandate. In May 2005,the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on strengthening knowledge translation mechanisms,which was followed by the approval of the WHO Strategy on Research for Health at the Sixty-third World Health Assembly in May 2010.Our Region has not lagged behind. At the WHO Regional Officefor South-East Asia, we have prioritized some areas of health and identified eight of them as Flagship Areas with the aim of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.