Methods with a focus on health R&D

This section collates publications describing experiences and approaches in setting priorities for health research, interventions or diseases that can be used to draw lessons. WHO guidance and further information can be found here.

• A systematic approach for undertaking a research priority-setting exercise. Guidance for WHO staff. World Health Organization, 2020.

• Priority setting of health interventions: the need for multi-criteria decision analysis.Baltussen R, Niessen L. Cost Eff Resour Alloc 2006; 4: 14.
  

• Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis for Health Care Decision Making--An Introduction: Report 1 of the ISPOR MCDA Emerging Good Practices Task Force.
  Thokala P, Devlin N, Marsh K, Baltussen R, Boysen M, Kalo Z et al. Value Health 2016; 19: 1-13. 
  

• Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis for Health Care Decision Making--Emerging Good Practices: Report 2 of the ISPOR MCDA Emerging Good Practices Task Force.
  Marsh K, IJzerman M, Thokala P, Baltussen R, Boysen M, Kalo Z et al. Value Health 2016; 19: 125-137.
  

• Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage: We Need Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes, Not Just More Evidence on Cost-Effectiveness
  Rob Baltussen, Maarten P. Jansen, Evelinn Mikkelsen, Noor Tromp, Jan Hontelez, Leon Bijlmakers, and Gert Jan Van der Wilt. Int J Health Policy Manag 2016; 5(11): 615–618.
  

• Value Assessment Frameworks for HTA Agencies: The Organization of Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes.
  Baltussen R, Jansen MPM, Bijlmakers L, Grutters J, Kluytmans A, Reuzel RP, Tummers M, der Wilt GJV. Value Health. 2017; 20(2):256-260.

• Mapping of multiple criteria for priority setting of health interventions: an aid for decision makers
  Tromp N and Baltussen B. BMC Health Services Research 2012; 12:454
  

• A checklist for health research priority setting: nine common themes of good practice
  Viergever RF, Olifson S, Ghaffar A, Terry RF. Health Res Policy Syst. 2010;8:36.
  

• Priority setting for research for health
  Montorzi G, de Haan S, IJsselmuiden C. Geneva, COHRED, 2010.
  

• Setting Priorities in Global Child Health Research Investments: Guidelines for Implementation of the CHNRI Method
  Rudan I, Gibson JL, Ameratunga S, El Arifeen, Bhutta ZA, Black M et al, on behalf of Child Health Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI). Croat Med J. 2008;49: 720–733.
  

• The 3D Combined Approach Matrix (CAM). An improved tool for setting priorities in research for health
  Ghaffar A, Collins T, Matlin SA, Olifson S. Geneva, Global Forum for Health Research, 2009.

• A manual for research priority setting using the ENHR approach
  Okello D, Chongtrakul P, the COHRED Working Group on Priority Setting. Geneva, COHRED, 2000.