this can be potentially accounted for by the act that not all policy concerns require research, in some instances, they require political judgment or action. For instance, when it comes to insufficient health spending. research may have limited capacity in to increase budgetary allowances to the health sector. this stakeholders also highlights key health systems challenges and concerns in order to arrive at well-identified research priorities. the last limitation of this study was that respondents were purposefully (rather than randomly) selected so the findings might not be representative of all stakeholders.