The Pakistan Medical Research Council was established in 1962 under the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Welfare to coordinate and promote research in the fields of medicine and public health in the country. With the establishment of the Ministry of Science & Technology in January 1972, the PMRC was transferred to the administrative control of this Ministry. In 1997 the Council was transferred again to the Ministry of Health.The Council has supported clinical and bio-medical research activities by setting up its research facilities and laboratories in various medical colleges and major hospitals of the country, as well as in the National Institute of Health, Islamabad. PMRC has thus broad based research capabilities, which are spread, all over the country. However the focus on information processing and translating results of research conducted by researchers/scientists within country and abroad would help accelerate the health sector development specifically and overall development process in the country generally. The information resource centre will specifically focus on providing research results to health policy-makers and planners for sound decision making based on empirical evidence, this will help in getting maximum mileage out of the scarce resources spent on health.