As part of an ongoing effort to create agreed-upon principles for stakeholder engagement in the priority-setting process for implementation science and research, a tool which would ensure all stakeholders had a voice in agenda setting, the 11th East, Central and...
The Implementation Science Collaborative brings together a diverse set of stakeholders to inform implementation science agendas and implement evidence-to-use activities. The result is a more holistic understanding of the problems that need to be addressed, and the...
What is the significance of evidence synthesis in public health program and policy? There are various sources of evidence that can serve as a basis for improving health program and policy. Ideally, at the college level, we need to design a large study that serves as a...
As a policymaker, what do you see as the major challenge of using evidence to improve policy? Currently, there are not many stakeholders who use data or research results as scientific evidence to improve health policy. For example, only 15% of provinces used research...
As part of the process to engage a wide range of stakeholders in the conceptualization of the Implementation Science Collaborative (ISC)—and in anticipation of the ISC’a inaugural Steering Committee meeting in October 2018 at the Fifth Global Symposium on Health...
People are living longer and staying healthier not only due to seismic changes in the creation of health interventions, such as the introduction of a new vaccine or the scale-up of discrete health interventions like Vitamin A, but equally because of incremental...
“What do you see as the major challenge of bringing evidence to policy makers in real time?” A major issue is that it is very difficult to get data quickly. We therefore need to establish processes and systems to allow us to conduct “quick and dirty” data collection...
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