Table 1.
Priority setting Criteria identified by DAP respondents
| Type of organization | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criteria | Explanation | Bilateral organization | Financial organization | Foundations | National health research agencies | NGOs | Public-private partnership and alliances | UN agencies |
| Economic considerations | Including economic evaluations, elements of supply-demand, and financial resources. | Cost-effectiveness | Cost-effectiveness | Cost-effectiveness | – | Cost-effectiveness, maximizing benefit, funding | Market considerations & cost per death averted | – |
| Evidence | Use of evidence in decision-making | X | – | X | X | X | X | X |
| Expertise | Knowledge & skills, experience, and comparative advantage | – | – | Comparative advantage & filling a gap | Capacity [for research] | Comparative advantage & filling a gap | X | – |
| Feasibility | Whether the organization has the capacity and resources to carry out the intervention(s) | – | – | X | X | X | X | – |
| Impact | Including the health impact on burden of disease, mortality and morbidity, and poverty | Overall impact | Impact on poverty & impact on mortality | Overall impact & burden of disease | – | Burden of disease | Health impact, impact on mortality and morbidity & burden of disease | Impact on mortality |
| Innovation | Original and/or creative solutions, tools, or strategies to address health challenges | – | – | X | X | – | – | – |
| Interests | Political, organization/funder, personal, global priorities and initiatives | Political interests (donor & recipient) | – | Personal & organizational interests | – | Alignment with global Initiatives | – | Alignment with global priorities |
| Sustainability | Both financial and political sustainability of activities & programs | – | – | – | – | – | X | X |
| Vulnerability | Disadvantage, (lack of) inclusiveness, (un)equal access or distribution of resources, disparities in BOD | – | – | – | – | X | X | X |