Measuring health science research and development in Africa: mapping the available data.

ABSTRACT: In recent years there have been calls to strengthen health sciences research capacity in African countries. This capacity can contribute to improvements in health, social welfare and poverty reduction through domestic application of research findings; it is increasingly seen as critical to pandemic preparedness and response. Developing research infrastructure and performance may reduce national economies' reliance on primary commodity and agricultural production, as countries strive to develop knowledge-based economies to help drive macroeconomic growth. Yet efforts to date to understand health sciences research capacity are limited to output metrics of journal citations and publications, failing to reflect the complexity of the health sciences research landscape in many settings. We map a

SUBMITTER: Wenham C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665309 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature