Health: Research

(asked on 9th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the article entitled When Ethics and politics collide in donor funded global health research, published in the Lancet on 22 March 2019, what research commissioned by his Department and funded by the public purse has not been published.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 16th May 2019

The Department received Official Development Assistance (ODA) research funding in 2016, and began commissioning global health research projects shortly afterwards. In line with the Department’s commitment to meet the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standards for transparency of ODA spend, details of all research projects funded through the Department’s ODA allocation are reported to IATI and published online via d-portal.

Whilst the Department is responsible for allocating ODA research funding, the responsibility for publishing research outputs lies with the researchers themselves, as appropriate and relevant to their work. Research projects directly commissioned and funded through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research programme are contractually obliged to publish their final report, which will be made publicly available through the NIHR Journals Library, along with any additional publications throughout the project lifetime. Published research acknowledges that the views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of Department.

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