Laba Tracey-Lea, Patel Anushka, Jan Stephen
The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, PO Box M201 Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia. Email:.
Aust Health Rev. 2017 May;41(2):173-175. doi: 10.1071/AH15230.
Recent trends in health research funding towards 'safe bets' is discouraging investment into the development of health systems interventions and choking off a vital area of policy-relevant research. This paper argues that to encourage investment into innovative and perceivably riskier health systems research, researchers need to create more attractive business cases by exploring alternative approaches to the design and evaluation of health system interventions. At the same time, the creation of dedicated funding opportunities to support this work, as well as for relevant early career researchers, is needed.
近期健康研究资金流向“安全赌注”的趋势不利于对卫生系统干预措施开发的投资，阻碍了一个与政策相关的重要研究领域。本文认为，为鼓励对创新且可感知风险更高的卫生系统研究进行投资，研究人员需要通过探索卫生系统干预措施设计和评估的替代方法来创造更具吸引力的商业案例。与此同时，需要设立专门的资金机会来支持这项工作以及相关的早期职业研究人员。
