Where is the ‘global’ in the European Union’s Health Research and Innovation Agenda?
Global Health has not featured as prominently in the European Union (EU) research agenda in recent years as it did in the first decade of the new millennium, and participation of low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in EU health research has declined substantially. The Horizon Europe Resea...
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| author | Till Bärnighausen Albrecht Jahn Eva Annette Rehfuess Ibrahim Abubakar Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch Hutan Ashrafian Nuria Casamitjana Antoine Flahault Anette Agardh Lars Hagander Astrid Berner-Rodoreda Frank Cobelens Mario Raviglione Günter Fröschl Jolene Skordis-Worral Leo Visser Constance Schultsz Antoni Plasència Remko van Leeuwen |
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| description | Global Health has not featured as prominently in the European Union (EU) research agenda in recent years as it did in the first decade of the new millennium, and participation of low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in EU health research has declined substantially. The Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Framework adopted by the European Parliament in April 2019 for the period 2021–2027 will serve as an important funding instrument for health research, yet the proposed health research budget to be finalised towards the end of 2019 was reduced from 10% in the current framework, Horizon 2020, to 8% in Horizon Europe. Our analysis takes the evolvement of Horizon Europe from the initial framework of June 2018 to the framework agreed on in April 2019 into account. It shows that despite some improvements in terms of Global Health and reference to the Sustainable Development Goals, European industrial competitiveness continues to play a paramount role, with Global Health research needs and relevant health research for LMICs being only partially addressed. We argue that the globally interconnected nature of health and the transdisciplinary nature of health research need to be fully taken into account and acted on in the new European Research and Innovation Framework. A facilitated global research collaboration through Horizon Europe could ensure that Global Health innovations and solutions benefit all parts of the world including EU countries. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fb795a5ef7ad40d09c6b1b4d1d88ce312025-08-20T01:59:04ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Global Health2059-79082019-10-014510.1136/bmjgh-2019-001559Where is the ‘global’ in the European Union’s Health Research and Innovation Agenda?Till Bärnighausen0Albrecht Jahn1Eva Annette Rehfuess2Ibrahim Abubakar3Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch4Hutan Ashrafian5Nuria Casamitjana6Antoine Flahault7Anette Agardh8Lars Hagander9Astrid Berner-Rodoreda10Frank Cobelens11Mario Raviglione12Günter Fröschl13Jolene Skordis-Worral14Leo Visser15Constance Schultsz16Antoni Plasència17Remko van Leeuwen188 Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, GermanyHeidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, GermanyInstitute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, GermanyInstitute for Global Health, University College London, London, UKJulius Global Health, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands1 Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UKBarcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainInstitute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Genève, Geneva, SwitzerlandSocial Medicine and Global Health, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, SwedenDepartment of Paediatric Surgery, Skåne University Hospital Children’s Hospital, Lund, SwedenHeidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, GermanyAmsterdam Institute for Global Health & Development (AIGHD) and Department of Global Health, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCentre for Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science, University of Milan, Milano, ItalyDivision of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, LMU München, München, GermanyInstitute for Global Health, University College London, London, UKDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, NetherlandsAmsterdam UMC, Department of Global Health, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsBarcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainDepartment of Global Health and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, NetherlandsGlobal Health has not featured as prominently in the European Union (EU) research agenda in recent years as it did in the first decade of the new millennium, and participation of low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in EU health research has declined substantially. The Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Framework adopted by the European Parliament in April 2019 for the period 2021–2027 will serve as an important funding instrument for health research, yet the proposed health research budget to be finalised towards the end of 2019 was reduced from 10% in the current framework, Horizon 2020, to 8% in Horizon Europe. Our analysis takes the evolvement of Horizon Europe from the initial framework of June 2018 to the framework agreed on in April 2019 into account. It shows that despite some improvements in terms of Global Health and reference to the Sustainable Development Goals, European industrial competitiveness continues to play a paramount role, with Global Health research needs and relevant health research for LMICs being only partially addressed. We argue that the globally interconnected nature of health and the transdisciplinary nature of health research need to be fully taken into account and acted on in the new European Research and Innovation Framework. A facilitated global research collaboration through Horizon Europe could ensure that Global Health innovations and solutions benefit all parts of the world including EU countries.https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/5/e001559.full |
| spellingShingle | Till Bärnighausen Albrecht Jahn Eva Annette Rehfuess Ibrahim Abubakar Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch Hutan Ashrafian Nuria Casamitjana Antoine Flahault Anette Agardh Lars Hagander Astrid Berner-Rodoreda Frank Cobelens Mario Raviglione Günter Fröschl Jolene Skordis-Worral Leo Visser Constance Schultsz Antoni Plasència Remko van Leeuwen Where is the ‘global’ in the European Union’s Health Research and Innovation Agenda? BMJ Global Health |
| title | Where is the ‘global’ in the European Union’s Health Research and Innovation Agenda? |
| title_full | Where is the ‘global’ in the European Union’s Health Research and Innovation Agenda? |
| title_fullStr | Where is the ‘global’ in the European Union’s Health Research and Innovation Agenda? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Where is the ‘global’ in the European Union’s Health Research and Innovation Agenda? |
| title_short | Where is the ‘global’ in the European Union’s Health Research and Innovation Agenda? |
| title_sort | where is the global in the european union s health research and innovation agenda |
| url | https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/5/e001559.full |
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