The Global Health Network is vast and highly connected community of health workers and health research organisations that enables research in every healthcare setting by driving equity in where research happens, who leads and who benefits from the evidence. This works by mobilising knowledge between organisations, across disease areas and different geographies. Embedded within many countries across the world this community runs research system strengthening programmes to integrate research within healthcare practice by facilitating workplace-based learning, local research support activities and professional development for research teams. The Global Health Network's digital platform hosts diverse knowledge hubs, each led by different organisations and networks. These hubs serve as dynamic catalysts, broadening engagement, uptake and impact across a spectrum of health research disciplines, topics, and disease areas. Within this dynamic ecosystem are a multitude of open-access health research resources including tools, guidelines, templates, methodologies, training courses, databases, webinars and workshops. Together these approaches are connecting networks, linking research groups and sharing excellence. This is speeding up research progress, raising standards and bringing efficiency. The Global Health Network is a WHO collaborating centre because of this effort to enable teams everywhere in the world to undertake and lead research studies that address local priority health challenges.