1- Encouraging the research bodies to use of the scientific methodologies to set the health research priorities as an endorsed tool in these bodies at the national and Gulf level and not to depend on traditional methods.
2- Promoting conduction of high priority research to provide required information to draw evidenced based policies and decisions.
3- Conduction of a Gulf workshop to strengthen communication between public and private sector, to promote partnership in the field of supper of health research , logistically and materially.
4- Work towards participation of various sectors with the Ministry of Health in the process of setting health research priorities including civil community organizations, stakeholders, and local community, universities, as well as research bodies and establishments.
5- Holding a regional workshop about translating research into health policies and mechanisms for utilization at the national and Gulf level.
6- Work towards exerting efforts within systematic well studies approach to change the social culture about the importance of health research. 7- Promotion of joint Gulf Cooperation in the field of exchange and
marketing of research programmes between the member states, especially those that are community based.
8- Urging the member states to develop and the skills of health workers in the field of health research and their support to effectively participate in the process of health research.
9- Strengthening cooperation between the Executive Office the World Health Organization and Global Forum for Health Research for the exchange of research, and provision of technical assistance in building and strengthening national and Gulf capacities, and urging them to support the Executive office with the required experiences
10-Urging the ministries of health in the member states to give health research the highest priorities, and assigning required budgets as well as informing decision makers about the research results.
11-Strengthening cooperation between the Executive Office the World Health Organization and Global Forum for Health Research for the exchange of research, and provision of technical assistance in building and strengthening national and Gulf capacities, and urging them to support Executive Office with the required experiences and skills in this regard.
- The Director General of the Executive Board participated as a member in the Regional Consultative Committee for Health Research in Cairo (28 - 29 October 2006) which issued very important recommendations. These recommendations have been circulated to the Cooperation Council States to be put it into action as appropriate.
- The Director General of the Executive Board has also participated in the special meeting of the Health Research Ethics Committees held in Cairo(18-20/4/1428 H / 5-7 May 2007) organized by the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office and UNESCO. The Director General of the Executive Board has delivered an address about the activities of the Health Minister’s Council for the Cooperation Council States about Bioethics and ethics of science and technology.
- The Health Ministers’ Council for the Cooperation Council states participated in the meetings of the Global Forum of Health Research.
The Gulf Committee for Health Research in its first meeting issued extremely important recommendations as well as it formulated the Gulf Strategy for Health Research.
The Recommendations involved the following :
1- The committee acknowledges with appreciation and gratitude the great initiatives presented by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Aziz donating 300 million US dollars as seed money for energy, environment and climate change research and as well as the donation of HH Amir of Kuwait of 150 million US doollars for the same purpose.
2- The committee apprecriates with gratitude the initiative made by the Prime Minister of the UAE , Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Aal-Maktom establishing scientific research centers in the Arab universities, offering fellowships to Arab students and researchers, to bridge the knowledge gap.
3- The committee praises with appreciation and gratitude the efforts of the leaders in the Council Countries for their concern about scientific research, notably what was presented in the last Gulf Summit held in Doha – Qatar and the initiative made by HH Amir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa assigning a budget in the Cooperation Council States for scientific research. The committee urges the Cooperation Council States to fully utilize these important initiatives in supporting health research.
4- Request to adopt the vision, mission, objectives and targets as well as the strategic plan for promotion of health research in the Cooperation Council States set by the Gulf Committee for health research.
5- Coordination among the member states in relation to the use of available tools and mechanisms for setting priorities of health research whether from COHRED, GFHR or CHNRI or WHO.
6- Request from the member states to provide the Executive board with a list of researches done in order to give effect to exchange of knowledge and experiences between the council states.
7- Assigning the member of the Gulf committee for health research, Kingdom of Bahrain to set a list of the 10 priorities for the health problems in the member states using available information about (DALYS) and provision of Executive Board with the report within 2 months as of the date of this meting.