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COHRED has received a substantial grant from the Botnar Foundation in Switzerland to digitize the RFI. Digitization will take place over 18 months between May 2019 – October 2020. This grant will allow for the RFI website to be converted into an online digitial platform that will allow for the easy completion of RFI reports for...

Gates Open Research has published an open letter on the RFI, written by Prof Jim Lavery and Prof Carel IJsselmuiden.

The RFI was included as a symposium topic at the EDCTP Forum 2018, and the session took place on Tuesday, September 18, 2018. In this session, RFI experts, RFI implementers and shared their views on how the RFI adds value to the research partnerships they are involved in – what can be improved – and...

An editorial written by COHRED in collaboration with the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal was published as an editorial in the BMJ Global Health. The article concerns the implementation/adoption of the RFI in the Portuguese speaking countries (CPLP), and specifically highlights how the RFI can help CPLP’s to...

An article on the RFI was included in the International Health Policies Newsletter for August 2018.

A presentation on the RFI was included on the programme for the EuroScience Open Forum 2018, in Toulouse, France, on July 12, 2018.  

Two brand new RFI Reports were published in June 2018, this time with one being from a Southern Institution and one from a Northern institution.

Kirsty Klipp presented the RFI as part of a parallel session at the SARIMA conference 2018, on Thursday May 31, 2018, at the Misty Hills Country Hotel in Gauteng, South Africa.

SciDev.Net published an article which spoke about the RFI as a tool for research institutions, highlighting its usefulness as a way to see where there are gaps in policy.