Work toward this outcome seeks to ensure capacity to conduct and use relevant and appropriate ethical research for health. This includes supporting country efforts to exercise functional research governance (policies, agendas, and priorities for health research, monitoring, evaluation, and accountability); establishing and applying research norms, standards, and good practices; ensuring adequate human and financial resources in health research; facilitating intersectoral coordination; and ensuring uptake, evaluation, publication, and dissemination of research. It also focuses on promoting and enabling innovative solutions to health problems (new analytical methods, digital health, social media, and communication technologies, among others) based on collaboration, transparency, and sustainability.

Note: For further details on the scope of this Outcome, please refer to the PAHO Strategic Plan 20-25 Document.