NAIROBI, Kenya, May 31, 2024 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- On Tuesday, Policy Cures Research will be releasing a first-of-its-kind report (attached and note embargo) on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly that assesses the health and economic impact of the past 20 years of investment in neglected disease R&D. This comes just after our partners at Duke released a series of reports that explore the R&D ecosystem shifts needed to help accelerate the discovery and development of new tools for poverty-related neglected diseases, emerging infectious diseases, and maternal health over the next two decades. Together, the reports make a strong health and economic case for investing global health R&D.
I’m also sharing a few resources you can use to amplify the messages on your own social channels; PCR’s report is particularly interesting from a visual storytelling perspective.
Interactive “scrollytelling” version of the PCR report
Social media toolkit for foundation staff (attached)
Policy Cures Research’s Communications Toolkit: This includes additional social content and some shareable data visualizations, animations, and stat cards (scroll down on the site to see them).
The Impact of Global Health R&D – Policy Cures Research
Purpose: To both assess the health and economic impact of the past 20 years of investment in neglected diseases R&D and establish a framework that the global health community can leverage to track and evaluate the impact of investment in global health R&D moving forward.
Key Findings:
Adjusted for inflation, global investments in neglected disease research from 1994- 2022 were approximately $97.9 billion.
The innovations made possible by investments in neglected disease research between 20000 and today have saved more than 8 million lives and averted more than 598 million DALYs.
This has produced a net economic benefit of some $10.9 trillion to date.
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