Turning health research into policy : final technical report

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2015-05

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This comprehensive report reviews the first multi-country study of knowledge translation (KT) platforms, a five-year research and capacity-building program focused on supporting evidence-informed health policies and systems in Africa. Eight KT platforms that became fully active in Africa are the focus of the evaluation and constitute the only well-studied of such experiments globally. Evidence-informed health policies and systems can be defined as the use of the best available research evidence in the time available in each of the agenda-setting, policy development and policy implementation phases of the health policy process. Citations for project outputs are provided in the bibliography.

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HEALTH POLICY, HEALTH SYSTEM, RESEARCH NETWORKS, KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION, SOUTH OF SAHARA, CAPACITY BUILDING, RESEARCH NEEDS, CANADA, BURKINA FASO, CAMEROON, ETHIOPIA, UGANDA, EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY MAKING

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