and the Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research and key stakeholders to generate research evidence to aid understanding of COVID-19 pandemic and support Nigeria’s response to the current outbreak.The research coalition has membership of over 50 institutions and provides a national platform for coordinating research on COVID-19 in Nigeria.
The national coordinator of NCRC, Chinwe Ochu, calls for sustainable funding for research on epidemic and pandemic-prone diseases in the country. She said; “Studies on complex ecological health phenomenon such as the COVID-19 pandemic should adopt an integrated multidisciplinary syndemic framework in order to understand its actual burden.
“We recommend the application of the “quadruple helix model” that incorporates the government, research institutions, industry and health consumers in the co-production and dissemination of research in order to maximise the pace, significance and impact of scientific evidence for action,” she said.
Where are the proposals? Develop them and confront big pharma that have budgets for R&D. Let me not hear any request for funding to the government.
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