WHO supports Member States in strengthening research governance, building and sustaining resources for health research and development, enhancing the production and use of evidence, establishing sustainable research financing, developing and implementing digital health capabilities, and harnessing and scaling up high-impact innovations.

Rehabilitation is a set of measures that assist an individual who experience, or are likely to experience, disability to achieve and maintain optimal functioning in interaction with their environments. It provides disabled people with the tools they need to attain independence and self-determination.

It encompasses a board spectrum of goals that includes the prevention of loss of function; slowing the rate of loss of function; improvement or restoration of function; compensation for loss of function; maintenance of current function.