Development of health research (Resolution)

WORlD HEALTH ORGANIZATION • RESOLUTION REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE WESTERN 'Ac:.IC c:o.TE MGICIIML DU ,~ OCQDBITAL WPRlRC44.RI4 17 September 1993 DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH RESEARCH The Regional Committee, Having considered the report of the Regional Director on the development of health research;! Recalling resolution WPRlRC42.R7 on the development of health research; 1. ENDORSES the reconunendations of the Western Pacific Advisory Committee on Health Research (WPACHR) at its fourteenth session; 2. URGES Member States: (I) to establish research priorities based on needs and direct their research efforts towards these priorities; (2) to concentrate efforts on applied or operational research, the results of which can immediately be utilized to eliminate or reduce their health problems; (3) to establish a national focal point to coordinate and manage health research activities, if this does not already exist; .. .I !Document WPRlRC44/IO, WPRlRC44.R14 page 2 3. REQUESTS the Regional Director: (1) to implement the WP ACHR recommendations if the relevant resources are available; (2) to continue to support individual and group research training activities; (3) to establish an effective health research information network involving national health research councils or analogous bodies and WHO Collaborating Centres. Ninth Meeting, 17 September 1993 WPRlRC44/SRl9 -