Investment in pneumonia and pneumococcal research

Michael G Head¹, Joseph R Fitchett², Marie-Louise Newell³, J Anthony G Scott⁴, Stuart C Clarke⁵, Rifat Atun⁶

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¹ Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Royal Free Campus, University College London, London NW3 2PF, UK. Electronic address: m.head@ucl.ac.uk.
² King's College London, London, UK.
³ Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
⁴ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; University of Southampton Malaysia Campus, Nusajaya, Malaysia; Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
⁶ Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 25444398
PMCID: PMC6995355
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70949-1

Investment in pneumonia and pneumococcal research

Michael G Head et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2014 Nov.

. 2014 Nov;14(11):1037-1038.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70949-1. Epub 2014 Oct 19.

Authors

Michael G Head¹, Joseph R Fitchett², Marie-Louise Newell³, J Anthony G Scott⁴, Stuart C Clarke⁵, Rifat Atun⁶

Affiliations

¹ Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Royal Free Campus, University College London, London NW3 2PF, UK. Electronic address: m.head@ucl.ac.uk.
² King's College London, London, UK.
³ Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
⁴ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; University of Southampton Malaysia Campus, Nusajaya, Malaysia; Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
⁶ Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 25444398
PMCID: PMC6995355
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70949-1

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**Figure. Total public and philanthropic funding in pneumonia-related research in 1997–2010, including breakdown of stage of research**

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Comment in

Investment in antibiotics against pneumonia.
Fernandes P. Fernandes P. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 Apr;15(4):376. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70057-5. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015. PMID: 25809890 No abstract available.
Challenges in mapping research investments for treatments against pneumonia.
Head MG, Fitchett JR, Clarke SC. Head MG, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 Nov;15(11):1262. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00351-5. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015. PMID: 26531036 No abstract available.

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1. Walker CLF, Rudan I, Liu L, et al. Global burden of childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea. Lancet. 2013;381:1405–16. - PMC - PubMed
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1. Head MG, Fitchett JR, Cooke MK, Wurie FB, Hayward AC, Atun R. UK investments in global infectious disease research 1997–2010: a case study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2013;13:55–64. - PubMed
1. Head MG, Fitchett JR, Cooke MK, et al. Investments in respiratory infectious disease research 1997–2010: a systematic analysis of UK funding. BMJ Open. 2014;4:e004600. - PMC - PubMed
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Threat Report 2013. Antibiotic resistance threats. [accessed Oct 14, 2013];2013 http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/threat-report-2013/

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