Table 1.

Summary of the most recent Zambia research priorities [16]

Category according to the Essential Care Package	Number of research priorities identified
Reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, adolescent health and nutrition	Reproductive (9), maternal (8), neonatal (6), child (9), adolescent health (11) and nutrition (17)
Communicable diseases	HIV (60), tuberculosis (17), hepatitis B (5), neglected tropical diseases (3), malaria (66)
Non-communicable diseases	General priorities (8), cancer (13), mental health (3), hormonal- diabetes (1), road safety (2), surgery (2).
Disease outbreaks and epidemics control	4
Biomedical sciences	3
Health promotion, social determinants, environmental health, primary healthcare, community health	11
Health systems	Human resources (7), essential drugs and diagnostics (9) infrastructure (1), information (2), financing (3), leadership (3), service delivery (1), innovation (5), traditional, complimentary, alternative and alternative medicine (5)