Table 2.

Factors and recommendations on pharmacy-related research in the Arab region linked to the WHO Strategy in Research for Health.

WHO goal	Factors	Recommendations
1. Organisation Research organisations and programmes	Collaborative research	▪To develop intranational and intraregional collaborative research strategies and organisations ▪To foster a culture of collaborative multi and inter-disciplinary research nationally and regionally
2. Priorities Addressing local, regional and global pharmacy-related and health needs	Addressing local contexts and needs by pharmacy-related research	▪To support the alignment of research aims with national and regional health needs for impact by the development of priorities-driven health research roadmaps and agendas
	Prioritising research in practice and workplace	▪To support and empower pharmacy research within the workplace and practice settings
3. Capacity Capacity building and development	Incentive funding and access to reliable data	▪To incentivise funding and sustained political investment in translational pharmacy-related research ▪To track publications and citation analysis through promoting bibliometric analysis/studies at national and regional levels
	Capacity building and development	▪To leverage the skill set and expertise of researchers in pharmacy in local institutions, collaborative research with other institutions and countries in the region ▪To embed research opportunities in undergraduate pharmacy curricula
4. Standards Promoting good practices	Ethics and ethical conduct in pharmacy research	▪To educate researchers on the ethics of publications and responsible authorship. For example, avoidance of predatory journals ▪To consider contextual factors as well as ethical standards in research
5. Translation	The extent of translational research in pharmacy	▪To commit to translation research and impact