We greatly appreciate the support from the WHO, Nepal office and, in particular, Dr Merel Mattousch, for the assistance provided in the organization and running of the workshop activities. We also thank Dr Ruth Frischer for her support to the documentation of the meeting and the preparation of the report, and acknowledge both Dr Hans Troedsson (WHO) and Anne Tinker (Saving Newborn Lives, Save the Children Federation) for their unwavering support and recognition of the importance of evidence-based approaches to saving neonatal lives worldwide.
Many researchers around the world are poised to address deficiencies in delivery of life-saving newborn health care. In order to best utilize scare resources, however, a coordinated effort is needed. Communication between research groups must be facilitated to optimize opportunities to compare and perhaps combine research data. A global interagency group could play an important role in making available to researchers information about requests for proposals and potential funding sources, current research projects, and results from recently concluded trials. Such a group could also facilitate dialogue among researchers to help standardize research methodology, address key gaps in knowledge, and avoid unnecessary duplication of effort.
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