About CHNRI
CHNRI is an international network of interested partners registered as a Swiss Foundation and supported by the Global Forum for Health Research (GFHR) in
- Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger,
- Reducing child mortality
- Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and diseases in children.
CHNRI is helping to set research priorities in child health, development and nutrition, and resolve related methodological issues. It also sponsors research into priority child health and nutrition problems, especially in low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on research to inform policies for scaling up effective interventions. CHNRI aims at increasing the level of communication and discussion amongst players working on research on child health and nutrition, such as nutritionists, child health specialists, and child development specialists. It provides a platform to initiate and maintain debate on the importance and direction of the research, bringing together scientists and implementing bodies to discuss issues relevant to the current status of knowledge and the requirements for the future.
The concepts underlying CHNRI were developed as a result of several meetings convened by the Global Forum for Health Research, starting with a movement from research groups in Forum 3 (the annual international conference convened by the Global Forum for Health Research in 1999) aiming to improve child health and nutrition through appropriately targeted research and to strengthen and formalize the interactions between researchers on child health, child nutrition and child development.
In February 2000, a meeting of interested parties led to the identification of research and analytical priorities. Following initial funding from The World Bank in 2001, issues of governance and strategic planning were addressed, and projects were initiated as commissioned research/analyses and competitive research grants.
A Board selected for their expertise in international public health and medical research governs CHNRI; Dr Robert Black,
