Coordinating health research to promote action: the Tanzanian experience

The failure of the malaria eradication programme in some developing countries illustrates the failure of those countries to coordinate their health research activities Coordination is needed to use scarce resources effectively but also to identify priorities and communicate these to policymakers and the public After years of Tanzanian health research institutions failing to collaborate they have now joined in a national health forum Already the forum has identified research priorities and is setting out an ethical framework for research.