Ongoing and completed research projects
Browse the ongoing and completed research projects supported by WHO Regional office for South-east Asia and its country offices since April 2022
Research and Innovation
Research and Innovation Unit in WHO’s Regional Office for South-East Asia
WHO is an evidence-based organization with the core mandate of promoting public health based on best evidence. Article 2 of WHO’s Constitution mandates the Organization to “promote and conduct research in the field of health.” Hence, harnessing research, information and evidence is one of the six WHO core functions. In this context, WHO provides leadership in generating evidence for effective and efficient public health measures through promoting research and knowledge translation. A new “Research and Innovation Unit” has been established in January 2022 within the Communicable Diseases (CDS) Department.
Vision: Achieving the best possible public health outcomes and health equity in South-East Asia Region powered by the latest in science, innovation and evidence.
Mission: Provide leadership in generating and translating the latest in science, evidence, and innovation to improve health and health equity for all in WHO South-East Asia Region.
Four key strategic objective of Research and Innovation Unit
Publications and reports
20 February 2024
Regional Consultation on Health Research Governance and Management in South-East Asia
The Regional Consultation on Health Research Governance and Management in South-East Asia was held in Delhi, India, on November 7–10 to provide...
7 July 2022
The research ethics review committee of WHO regional office for South-East Asia (SEARO-ERC)
These standard operating Procedures (“SOP”) delineate the structure, functions and process (including the review criteria) to be followed...
SEAPH is a peer-reviewed, indexed (MEDLINE, Index Medicus for the South-East Asia Region), biannual publication of World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia.
Open call for applications
BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh
TDR Postgraduate Scholarship in Implementation Research
Academic Year 2025–2026
Deadline for applications: 15 August 2024
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South-East Asia has an extensive network of institutions conducting health research in the region. Search here by country and area of expertise and to network and explore collaboration with them.
Research Capacity Building
Search here for WHO short courses and accredited online courses on public health research methodology and health research ethics.
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Research Policies and Strategies
Regional Policies for WHO South-East Asia
In May 2010, the WHO Strategy on research for health was approved by Sixty-third World Health Assembly. The global strategy provides a framework for formulating regional strategies.
The Regional Office drafted its first Regional Strategy on Research for Health for the period 2012-2016, which provided a framework for research for health in the Region.
The second regional strategy (2018-2022) was developed based on the recommendations of the 35th session of South-East Asia (SEA) Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) in October 2017. The strategy aims to support research in the Region’s eight Flagship Priority Areas, which are rooted in sustainable Development Goals and address the key public health needs of the Region’s Member States.
Global Policies
WHO Global Strategy on research for health (2010)
Research priorities
Regional Priorities for health research
Regional priorities for research on COVID-19
Research Governance and Management
National health research assessments
Maldives
Timor-Leste
Regional Assessment of Health Research Systems
Regional Advisory Committee on Health Research [ACHR] (1988-2017)
Framework and tools for assessment of national health research systems
National mechanisms for Health Research Coordination and Management in the Countries of South-East Asia Region (1987)
Analysis of investment by major funders-Biomedical research (working paper-2017)