Health Research Technology Transfer Directorate
The Central Ethiopia Region Health Research Technology Transfer Directorate plays a critical role in advancing public health research and addressing regional health challenges. Its activities are comprehensive, beginning with the identification of significant public health issues that require focused research. This process ensures that research efforts are directed toward solving problems that directly impact the health and well-being of the population.
Once a research need is identified, the Directorate initiates and coordinates the activities required to carry out the research. This involves organizing the research framework, assigning resources, and ensuring that the research is conducted in line with regional health priorities. As part of this, the Directorate conducts thorough ethical reviews of proposed health research papers, ensuring that all research complies with established ethical standards. This includes safeguarding scientific integrity, addressing financial management issues, resolving conflicts of interest, and ensuring compliance with grant and contract regulations.
Mission , Objectives and Major Activities of Health Research Technology Transfer Directorate
Mission
To generate evidences to address public health problems and to guide implementation of different health programs.
Objectives
By reviewing different evidences sources, conducting public health researches and monitoring and evaluating implementation of different programs, health research and technology transfer directorate is believed to generate quality evidences for decision-making and thereby to contribute to achievements of health sector plans and impact health policies.
Major activities
Health research and technology transfer directorate performs the following major activities, but not limited to:
- Identify public health problem needing research
- Initiate and coordinate health research activities
- Conduct ethical review on proposed health research papers. Oversee ethical standards for the conduct of research (including issues of scientific integrity, financial management, financial and business conflicts of interest, grant and contract compliance, etc.)
- Capacity building on health research
- Search for budget to conduct researches
- Disseminate research findings. Organize periodic research symposium/forum on interdisciplinary topics dealing with issues pertaining to public health problems, present findings in review meetings and also publish on peer reviewed reputable scientific journals.
- Follow up and evaluation of health research (coordinate, monitor and appraise the performance of various research activities)
- Formulate research strategies and performance indicators, and procedures necessary to ensure successful implementation of researches
- Promote interdisciplinary and collaborative thematic research projects
- Support and oversee adaptations of health technologies
- Plan, promote and carryout close work relations and linkages with appropriate government research and development agencies/institutions