HEALTH RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT POLICY AT THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (IMTU).

HEALTH RESEARCH POLICY OBJECTIVES FOR IMTU.

In line with the National Health Research Forum which is an appendage administered by the National Institute of Medical Research, (a premier health research government institution administered by the Ministry of Health and now working "hand in hand" with the famous premier American Health Research institution the "Centre of Disease Control") the IMTU health overall research objective is to act as a trend setter for the following specific groups of objectives.

Specific objectives

• Health Status Objectives:- Acquire ability to conceptualize research that reduces morbidity and mortality; research that can solve local and regional health problems; and research that can solve scientific questions in different branches of the health sciences at the medical college.
  
  
• Health Policy development objectives:- Achieve planned research proposals that facilitate creation of national health priorities policy and strategy.
  
  
• Heath Systems Development Research objectives:-Establish research that upgrades and improves the health systems (including abandonment of out of date ones or introduction of innovative ones); aim at maintenance of cost effective, cost efficient and quality oriented health systems.
  
  
• Staff capacity building objectives:- Acceleration of financial, material and manpower acquisition to enable research capacity strengthening to produce research proposals that lead to career promotion and job/post upgrading.
  
  
• Health monitoring objectives:- Establish monitoring indicators that are responsive to the type of health delivery services rendered (e.g. clinical officer: population ratio instead of only depending on doctor: population ratio only).
  
  
• Production of well research motivated graduates objectives:- Achieve having graduates that are well trained and overwhelmingly motivated in epidemiological concepts and health research through well treasured prizes and other competitive measure; establishing students medical journal, establishing research bulletin, and employing students during their holidays on the research projects of their teachers.
  
  
• Staff motivation objectives:-Provision of attractive terms, prestige and conditions of service to researchers so as to motivate research and reward productivity.
  
  
• Infrastructure development objectives:- Strengthening the research infrastructure in the college by placing due emphasis on institutional development and improving logistical and technical support to research operations.
  
  
• Priority setting objectives:- Establish conceptual framework to focus at research that promotes health and development on the basis of equity; and on the diseases which disproportionately affect the poorest of the poor in Tanzania..

HEALTH RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR IMTU

IMTU's experience on diseases and conditions out of the specialist outpatient clinics and inpatients at Mwananyamala Hospital is available in the medical college records to influence its priority research choices. IMTU's priorities in research are according to the following 15 top conditions:- Malaria; acute respiratory infections and pneumonias; HIV/AIDS; diarrhoeal diseases; perinatal problems; diabetes mellitus; hypertension; tuberculosis; malnutrition, immunizable diseases, urinary tract infections skin diseases, cancer, maternal reproductive health, and accidents