@article{27303,
  keywords = {Tropical Medicine, Operations Research, non-governmental organizations, Government financing, Disease elimination},
  author = {Toledo C and Jacobson J and Wainwright E and Ottesen E and Lammie P},
  title = {RRR for NNN—a rapid research response for the Neglected Tropical Disease NGDO Network: a novel framework to challenges faced by the global programs targeting neglected tropical diseases: Box 1.},
  abstract = {<p>While global programs targeting the control or elimination of five of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) - lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis and trachoma&nbsp;- are well underway, they still face many operational challenges. Because of the urgency of 2020 program targets, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development devised a novel rapid research response (RRR) framework to engage national programs, researchers, implementers and WHO in a Coalition for Operational Research on NTDs. After 2 years, this effort has succeeded as an important basis for the research response to programmatic challenges facing NTD programs.</p>
},
  year = {2016},
  journal = {International health},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {12-14},
  issn = {1876-3413},
  url = {http://inthealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/suppl_1/i12.full.pdf+html},
  doi = {10.1093/inthealth/ihv072},
  language = {eng},
}