01 / 10Health Systems Strengthening
Research aimed at understanding and addressing systemic barriers to effective, equitable, resilient, and sustainable healthcare delivery.
Our Research Areas
Ten disciplines working as one.
BIGHR conducts and supports multidisciplinary research across key areas of global health — generating evidence that responds to real-world challenges.
Our research areas
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02 / 10Implementation Science
Generating evidence on how proven health interventions can be effectively adopted, implemented, scaled, sustained, and integrated into routine health systems.
03 / 10Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Applying epidemiological methods, statistical analysis, and data science to understand disease patterns, determinants, health outcomes, and population-level risks.
04 / 10Infectious Diseases
Research addressing the prevention, control, treatment, surveillance, and elimination of infectious diseases, particularly those that disproportionately affect populations in low- and middle-income countries.
05 / 10Vaccines & Immunization
Research focused on immunization systems, vaccine access, demand, coverage, delivery, safety, supply chains, and strategies for improving vaccination outcomes.
06 / 10Pharmaceutical Systems & Supply Chains
Research addressing access to quality-assured medicines, pharmaceutical management, procurement, forecasting, inventory management, distribution, rational medicine use, and supply chain performance.
07 / 10Digital Health & Health Informatics
Exploring the use of digital technologies, health information systems, data analytics, and responsible artificial intelligence to strengthen healthcare delivery and decision-making.
08 / 10Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
Research focused on improving health outcomes for women, newborns, children, and adolescents through evidence-based interventions and stronger health systems.
09 / 10Health Economics & Policy
Generating evidence on healthcare financing, resource allocation, cost-effectiveness, policy implementation, and the economic implications of health interventions.
10 / 10Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
Supporting programmes and organizations to measure performance, assess outcomes, generate learning, and use evidence to improve interventions and decision-making.
Research & Innovation
Turning questions into evidence, and evidence into action.
We believe meaningful improvements in health require more than identifying problems. They require rigorous research, innovative thinking, collaboration, and the translation of evidence into action. We are particularly interested in research that addresses the gaps between what is known, what is implemented, and what ultimately improves outcomes.
Implementation research
Operational research
Epidemiological studies
Health systems research
Health policy research
Programme evaluation
Mixed-methods research
Quantitative and qualitative research
Health economic evaluation
Data science and statistical analysis
Digital health research
Evidence synthesis and systematic reviews
Knowledge translation
BIGHR seeks to foster innovation that is scientifically sound, locally relevant, scalable, sustainable, and capable of generating meaningful health impact.
Capacity Building