Performing a landscape analysis: understanding health product research and development

a quick guide

29 August 2023

| Technical document

A landscape analysis related to health products aims to identify and

characterize all the products that exist or are being developed in a specific

topic area. The topic may be focused or broad, investigating the area by

product class or by stage of development – such as all vaccines against

malaria in phase III clinical trials, or all antimicrobial therapeutics in

preclinical and clinical development, or all rapid diagnostic test (RDT)

readers with regulatory approvals in at least one country.

Various sources and tracking processes can be used to monitor developments.

These include clinical trial registries, proprietary databases, company/

university websites and industry-specific third-party sources. This document

is a starting guide for WHO technical teams intending to perform a landscape

analysis.

WHO Team

Emerging Tech, Research Prioritisation & Support (EPS), Research for Health (RFH)

Editors

World Health Organization

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ISBN: 9789240073319