Product Development Partnerships for Health

An Innogen funded project, this project is currently in its Third Phase having first started in 2001. This current phase of the project is concerned with questions of partnership objectives, inputs, process and outputs; and the connections between these. We are particularly interested in knowing whether product development partnerships for new health technologies produce sustainable institutional, infrastructural and human capacities for health research and health system delivery? What are the indicators of the impact, and if not optimal, how could it have been enhanced?

This project builds on a substantial degree of work conducted previously by Innogen researchers, focusing particularly - although not exclusively - on the work of two PDPs, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI). Further details of this previous research project Innovation, Development and Global Health: The role of partnerships and innovation systems and strategies for enhancing capacities are available on the Innogen website.

Alongside further development of in-depth case studies of IAVI and MVI this phase of the project aims to continue our conceptual work around how best to evaluate PDPs and the value of thinking about PDPs as ‘social technologies' or innovative organisational and institutional mechanisms.

Publications

Chataway, J.C., Fry, C. and Hanlin, R. (2012) "Evaluating Product Development Partnerships in Global Health" in M. Gonzalez et al. UIMP Seminar Book (forthcoming)

Hanlin, Rebecca (2011). Evaluating product development partnerships: beyond quantitative metrics. In: Williams, Owain David and Rushton, Simon eds. Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance. International Political Economy Series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 102-120.

Chataway, Joanna; Hanlin, Rebecca; Mugwagwa, Julius and Muraguri, Lois (2010). Global health social technologies: reflections on evolving theories and landscapes. Research Policy, 39(10), pp. 1277-1288.

Hanlin, Rebecca (2009). International product development partnerships: innovation for better health? RECIIS (Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação e Inovação em Saúde), 3(4), pp. 198-208.