BACKGROUND Health research has scientific, social and political impacts. To achieve such impacts, several institutions need to participate; however, health research funding institutions are seldom nominated in the literature as essential players. The attention they have received has so far focused mainly on their role in knowledge translation, informing policy-making and the need to organise health research systems. In this article, we will focus solely on the governance of national health research funding institutions. Our objectives are to identify the main functions of governance for such institutions and actionable governance functions. This research should be useful in several ways, including in highlighting, tracking and measuring the governance trends in a given funding institution, and to forestall low-level governance. METHODS First, we reviewed existing frameworks in the grey literature, selecting seven relevant documents. Second, we developed an integrated framework for health research funding institution governance and management. Third, we extracted actionable information for governance by selecting a mix of North American, European and Asian institutions that had documentation available in English (e.g. annual report, legal status, strategy). RESULTS The framework contains 13 functions - 5 dedicated to governance (intelligence acquisition, resourcing and instrumentation, relationships management, accountability and performance, and strategy formulation), 3 dedicated to management (priority-setting, financing and knowledge transfer), and 5 dedicated to transversal logics that apply to both governance and management (ethics, transparency, capacity reinforcement, monitoring and evaluation, and public engagement). CONCLUSIONS Herein, we provide a conceptual contribution for scholars in the field of governance and health research as well as a practical contribution, with actionable functions for high-level managers in charge of the governance of health research funding institutions.

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卫生研究资助机构的治理：整合的概念框架和可行的治理功能。

背景技术健康研究具有科学，社会和政治影响。为了实现这种影响，需要几个机构的参与；但是，文献中很少提名卫生研究资助机构为必不可少的参与者。迄今为止，他们所受到的关注主要集中在他们在知识翻译中的作用，为决策提供信息以及组织卫生研究系统的需要。在本文中，我们将仅专注于国家卫生研究资助机构的治理。我们的目标是确定此类机构的主要治理职能和可行的治理职能。这项研究应以多种方式有用，包括突出，跟踪和衡量给定供资机构的治理趋势，以及防止低层治理。方法首先，我们回顾了灰色文献中的现有框架，选择了七个相关文件。其次，我们为卫生研究资助机构的治理和管理开发了一个集成框架。第三，我们通过选择北美，欧洲和亚洲机构的混合使用来提取可操作的信息，以英语进行使用（例如，年度报告，法律地位，战略）。结果该框架包含13个职能-5个专门用于治理（智能获取，资源和工具，关系管理，问责制和绩效以及战略制定），3个专门用于管理（优先级设置，融资和知识转移），5个专门用于管理适用于治理和管理的横向逻辑（道德，透明度，能力增强，监控和评估以及公众参与）。结论在此，我们为治理和卫生研究领域的学者提供了概念性的贡献，同时也为实践提供了实用性的成果，为负责卫生研究资助机构治理的高级管理人员提供了可行的功能。