developed
by the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative
(CHNRI) was adapted and used for this priority setting
exercise, to enable systematic listing and transparent scoring
of many competing research questions [24–26]. This
methodology had been used in the previous priority setting
exercises by the WHO on five major causes of child deaths:
pneumonia, diarrhea, preterm birth and low birth weight,
neonatal infections, and birth asphyxia [8–12]. The previous
exercise coordinated by the WHO was sharply focused
on short–term gains, ie, within the MDG4 target of the year
2015. In addition, the CHNRI methodology has been used
by many other subject groups and multiple organizations
[27–33]. Box 2 shows the steps we followed during this
priority setting process.