New solutions applied in countries
21
instances when research projects supported by TDR informed policy and/or practice in countries to tackle infectious diseases of poverty
2024 Highlights and key performance indicators
A range of key achievements from 2024 are highlighted below
Addressing global health challenges
Highlight 1/5
Ghana approved moxidectin for the treatment of river blindness. This first-of-its-kind approval paves the way for a TDR-supported pilot implementation programme.
Highlight 2/5
New implementation research training modules have been developed featuring case studies addressing diseases such as Chagas disease and trachoma.
Highlight 3/5
The Early Warning and Response System for climate-sensitive diseases (EWARS-csd) is being piloted in three additional countries in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Senegal).
Highlight 4/5
We have developed and piloted a research package for conducting root cause analysis of yellow fever outbreaks in Cameroon, Central African Republic and Guinea.
Highlight 5/5
TDR-supported studies have led to national policy changes in the Dominican Republic and Ecuador, which have adopted short all-oral regimens for drug-resistant TB patients.
Creating an enabling environment for research
Highlight 1/5
The first cohort of 20 Clinical Research Leadership programme fellows (6 men and 14 women) were placed with their training hosts.
Highlight 2/5
The postgraduate training scheme partner universities enrolled 37 new master’s students (15 men and 22 women) from 22 countries.
Highlight 3/5
TDR-supported regional training centres (RTCs) managed nine sessions of the massive open online course on implementation research, delivered in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish, to more than 7300 registered participants.
Highlight 4/5
An opinion article published in the BMJ on the occasion of TDR’s 50th anniversary discussed the Programme’s commitment to and progress on advancing inclusive internationalism in health research.
Highlight 5/5
The Global Health Matters podcast, with 40 episodes produced as of December 2024, is reaching listeners in more than 180 countries.
Clockwise from top left: Ricardo Baptista Leite, Ayoade Alakija, Wilfried Mutombo, Yasmine Belkaid, John Reeder, Francine Ntoumi and Corine Karema.
All photos courtesy of guests except for John Reeder (Credit: TDR/Antoine Tardy)
2024 Progress on select key performance indicators
Technical achievements
Tools used globally and regionally
6
instances when tools and reports were used to inform policy and/or practice of global/regional stakeholders or major funding agencies
Research grantees and trainees
281
scientists supported through the Postgraduate Training Scheme, Impact Grants for Regional Priorities, Clinical Research and Development Fellowship, and SORT IT
Application of core values
Gender equity
44%
of peer-reviewed publications supported by TDR have women as first author
50%
of total research grant/contract amounts have been awarded to women
Social and economic equity
71%
of peer-reviewed publications supported by TDR have first authors from disease endemic countries
66%
of total research grant/ contract amounts have been awarded to recipients in disease endemic countries
Management performance
Effective management
100%
of expected results are on track
100%
of significant risk management action plans are on track