Knowledge gaps and national research priorities for COVID-19 in Iran.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the present COVID-19 crisis, one of the greatest challenges for research funding at both the international and national level is selecting the best research topic to achieve efficiency and equity in health research and to address the knowledge gap urgently raised due to the event. Despite international recommendations, countries should consider their context-specific situation and define local research priorities. We aimed to exercise a priority-setting activity to identify the knowledge gaps and suggest research priorities in response to the COVID-19 epidemic in Iran.

Methods

First, we tried to identify the contextual knowledge gaps based on an online survey, performing key informant interviews (i.e. health professionals, policy-makers and managers) and media

SUBMITTER: Yazdizadeh B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8889392 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature