https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14356/832 NHRC Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:58:01 GMT 2026-04-09T11:58:01Z http://elibrary.nhrc.gov.np:80/retrieve/0ff9bc51-79fa-4daa-87fd-020466d4c4aa/-02.jpg https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14356/832 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14356/2759 Title: Annual Report Fiscal Year 2081/82 (2024/2025) Authors: Ghimire, Sailaja; Khatri, Bishal Dahal Abstract: Executive Summary Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) is the apex body to promote health research nationwide. It was established under the NHRC Act 1991 (2047 BS) with the aim of conducting, promoting, and coordinating for the betterment of the health status of Nepalese People. NHRC is publishing annual report each year since its establishment with the main aim of compiling all the activities carried out in NHRC in a systematic order and to disseminate information about the activities. This annual report includes an introduction of NHRC that has five chapters namely: Administration, Health Research, Ethical Review, Library, and Information and Publication. Administration reports governance activities (six Executive Board meetings in the fiscal year), staff recruitment and staffing updates, NHRC representation in national/international programs, and funding partners and budgets (Government budget plus partner grants). The report lists meeting dates and notes recruitment drives and coordination with the Public Service Commission. The health research section includes completed research studies and ongoing research studies. These are Research Uptake, the Global Youth Tobacco Survey, Rice Fortification endline and acceptability, FACEUP, the Population Based Cancer Registry, NCD research on certain children and adolescents, COVID-19 vaccination preparedness, discovery of new medicines in plants for medicine, research in the Musahar population, and FA5/CLIMB climate research studies. Some key findings are: an extremely high rate of asthma in the NCD pilot (21.7%), improved diet in the rice-fortification endline, good COVID-19 vaccine coverage with lessons learnt locally, and encouraging lab results for certain medicines from plants. The research uptake activity has included disseminating the Annual Report and working on a dengue policy brief. NHRC’s ERB and Institutional Review Committees ensure ethical guidelines are adhered to; ERB remains approved by FERCAP. The chapter discusses how ethical checks, monitoring, and M&E procedures were implemented throughout the year. The NHRC library has initiated significant digitization efforts such as broadening the NEPMED repository, enhancing access by Research4Life/HINARI, refreshing the KOHA e-Library catalogue, and enhancing the VuFind discovery portal. Reference service, training support (though in limited additional funding), and expansion of the NEPMED, training, and digitization preservation are planned for the future by the NHRC library. NHRC conducted frequent training on preparing research proposals across various provinces. The Journal of NHRC continued publishing regular issues (Issues 64–66 is part of the list), and the publishing section assisted with various kinds of articles. Capacity development assisted in enhancing proposal preparation, research ethics, and data management work. Description: Annual Report. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14356/2759 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14356/2538 Title: Annual report: Fiscal Year 2080/81 (2023/2024) Authors: Nepal Health Research Council Abstract: Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) is the apex body to promote health research nationwide. It was established under the NHRC Act 2047 (1991) with the aim of conducting, promoting, and coordinating for the betterment of the health status of Nepalese People. NHRC is publishing annual report each year since its establishment with the main aim of compiling all the activities carried out in NHRC in a systematic order and to disseminate information about the activities. This annual report includes an introduction of NHRC that has five chapters namely: Administration, Health Research, Ethical Review, Library, and Information and Publication. The administration section is responsible for performing daily operations, overseeing staff, and maintaining records. This year NHRC has conducted nine board meeting and signed three Memorandum of Understanding. NHRC represented in several national and international workshops, seminars, meetings, and forums. Moreover, NHRC receives regular annual budget from the Government of Nepal since 2000 AD along with receiving budget from various national and international organizations. The research section of NHRC is responsible for conducting various research projects. In this fiscal year, NHRC conducted all together ten research projects, of which seven are completed and others are ongoing. Among the various objectives of NHRC, promoting responsible conduct of health research and regulation of all health-related research conducted in Nepal is one. To oversee the responsible conduct of research in Nepal, NHRC has published National Ethical Guidelines for Health Research and have formed Institutional Review Committees. This year Ethical Review Monitoring and Evaluation Section registered a total of 678 protocols of which 550 were approved. This year in total 73 Ethical Review Board Meeting were conducted. Furthermore, they conducted 12 monitoring visits, two training workshops and one research project connected to ethics. NHRC established library section with the main aim to provide research-based health information for all health professionals involved in research activities serving as a repository for health-related information and resources. Furthermore, NHRC library has established a network with other health research libraries and can access HINARI program set up by the WHO. Till now NHRC library can provide information of 11,400 journals (in 30 different languages), and 18,500 e-books for more than 100 countries. This year NHRC library has developed web-based NEPMED health journal repository, purchased books for NHRC user, and provided scientific indexed health journals information. In addition, capacity building section is responsible for conducting research and publishing NHRC journal. This year, we published six issues and have conducted seven trainings of which three were related to the health research proposal development, and four were related to data management and analysis. Description: Annual Report. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14356/2538 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14356/849 Title: Annual Report: Fiscal Year 2077/78 Authors: Nepal Health Research Council Sat, 01 Jan 2078 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14356/849 2078-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14356/848 Title: Annual Report: Fiscal Year 2075/76 (17 July 2018 – 16 July 2019) Authors: Nepal Health Research Council Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14356/848 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z