Priority-setting in public health research funding organisations: an exploratory qualitative study among five high-profile funders.

Health Res Policy Syst

International Union for Health Promotion and Education, Saint-Maurice, France.

Published: June 2018

Background: Priority-driven funding streams for population and public health are an important part of the health research landscape and contribute to orienting future scholarship in the field. While research priorities are often made public through targeted calls for research, less is known about how research funding organisations arrive at said priorities. Our objective was to explore how public health research funding organisations develop priorities for strategic extramural research funding programmes.

Methods: Content analysis of published academic and grey literature and key informant interviews for five public and private funders of public health research in the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States and France were performed.

Results: We found important distinctions in how funding organisations processed potential research priorities through four non-sequential phases, namely idea generation, idea analysis, idea socialisation and idea selection. Funders generally involved the public health research community and public health decision-makers in idea generation and socialisation, but other groups of stakeholders (e.g. the public, advocacy organisations) were not as frequently included.

Conclusions: Priority-setting for strategic funding programmes in public health research involves consultation mainly with researchers in the early phase of the process. There is an opportunity for greater breadth of participation and more transparency in priority-setting mechanisms for strategic funding programmes in population and public health research.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6014000PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-018-0335-8DOI Listing

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