Investigating the heart of science policy

To what extent and in what way do the needs for scientific knowledge in health expressed by different stakeholders translate into research funding priorities and research portfolios useful for solving problems that affect these actors?

David Fajardo Ortiz

Mar 02, 2024

News and Opinion

How can I demonstrate the social impact of my research?

With DORA, a large number of universities and funding agencies have committed to value of the impact on society of your research. With your list of publications, altmetric data, a search engine and your detective skills, you can identify who and how they are using the knowledge you have generated.

David Fajardo Ortiz

Feb 22, 2024

Analysing the research funding profiles of the NIH, FPs and the ERC

Behind the Paper

Analysing the research funding profiles of the NIH, FPs and the ERC

David Fajardo Ortiz

Oct 20, 2023

News and Opinion

An outsider studying the processes of knowledge production and biomedical and biotechnological innovation in the United States and the European Union. Part 2: a fragmented European health research system

In this blog I am going to post a series of reflections on how a vision from the global south can be useful to improve and democratize biomedical innovation processes in the United States and Europe. In part 2, I present a study on the health research system in the EU

David Fajardo Ortiz

Sep 23, 2023

News and Opinion

An outsider studying the processes of knowledge production and biomedical and biotechnological innovation in the United States and the European Union. Part 1: The fear of Ebola fever.

In this blog I am going to post a series of reflections on how a vision from the global south can be useful to improve and democratize biomedical innovation processes in the United States and Europe. In part 1, I present a study on the structure of Ebola research.

David Fajardo Ortiz

Sep 21, 2023

Funding a technological revolution: who pays for what CRISPR research?

Behind the Paper