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What barriers need to be addressed by KT strategies to enhance health equity?

By Angela Kisakye

The world achieved impressive health gains during the 20th century. However, health worldwide is distributed unevenly, according to socioeconomic status. Unfair and avoidable health inequalities have been termed health inequities. Modern health policy must ensure that poor people are included in the benefits of development1. The first step is to assess barriers and facilitators (or incentives) across socioeconomic factors, e....

What is required for successful transfer of knowledge? By Angela Kisakye

Knowledge translation has in the recent past emerged as an important discipline in linking policy makers, communities and relevant stakeholders to research evidence.  The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recognizes two types of knowledge translation (KT): (1) the end of grant KT, which involves intensive dissemination activities to tailor the findings' message for stakeholders (by summary briefings to stakeholders; interactive educational sessions with policy makers and media engagement among...

Disseminating Laboratory research from Senegal. By Dr. Aicha Marceline Sarr

Welcome back from the holidays! I hope you had a wonderful time with your families.  Last year was crowned with a blog about the politics of evidence from Prof. Justin Parkhust.  It was still in December 2016 that the African Society for Laboratory Medicine  (ASLM) held their  third biennial international conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference was attended by laboratory experts from allover the world, policy makers, researchers as well...

The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence

By  Justin Parkhurst

Many of those active in knowledge translation (KT) work are motivated by a desire to see policy-relevant evidence achieve its greatest potential to improve decisions and affect social policies for the benefit of populations. Advocates of greater evidence thus work from a clear set of values about the potential usefulness of evidence, but also at times raise concerns about the misuse and manipulation of evidence to serve other interests...

Influencing policy and practice, one dialogue, one poster, one engagement, one step at a time:  More experiences from KTNET Africa.  

By Angela Kisakye

For the past three years, KTNET Africa has worked with researchers in eight African countries to bring researches, policy makers and key stakeholders on the same page. This has been achieved through various knowledge translation (KT) activities including; supporting dissemination workshops and working with researchers to package evidence into appropriate KT products for...

What transpired during the fourth Global Health Systems symposium? 

By Angela Kisakye

Last week the KTNET Africa team, researchers from the different research coalitions funded by WOTRO, as well as representatives from WOTRO had an opportunity to participate in the recently concluded Global Health Systems Symposium in Vancouver Canada. The theme for the symposium was ‘resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world.’ It was not only a...

Practicing Knowledge Transfer through Deliberative Dialogue: Lessons from the SOCIALAB dissemination.  By: Dr. Aicha Marceline SARR (project contact person-SOCIALAB)

Before becoming a member of the Knowledge Translation Network Africa (KTNET Africa), I had a different vision for the dissemination of research results, which to my understanding was limited to the publication of articles in scientific journals, participation in national and international scientific conferences with presentations of research in the form of posters or orally. After this project, I finally understand that...

From here to there? Musings on the building of the Knowledge Translation Network Africa. By Dr. Suzanne Kiwanuka

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step. Lao Tzu

On 23rd November 2013, 17 strangers gathered at a nondescript hotel in Kampala Uganda to launch the Knowledge Translation Network for Africa (KTNET Africa). This network was envisioned as a platform, which would support research evidence uptake across nine African countries but also foster collaboration to build capacity and enhance the exchange of health system strengthening evidence across the countries...

My experience with Knowledge Translation (KT) in DRC.

By Eric Mafuta, WOTRO IMCH DRC

Over the past months, we have enjoyed a series of blogs on the subject of Knowledge Translation (KT). In this blog, I would like to talk about my experience in KT, how I have learned about it and how I have done it in DRC.

Having evolved for several years in the field of public health in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). I used to share and gain knowledge mainly through scientific journal articles and conferences. However, I noticed that potential users of knowledge produced by...

Bumps in the Road: The Many Levels of Road Traffic Safety and Injury

By: Dr. Janet Pruv Bettger

Crossing busy and congested Kira Road on my way up to Mulago Hospital I found myself thinking of the recent WHO facts sheet on road traffic injuries. This detailed summary of facts and prevention strategies was an important reminder of the decade long commitment to road safety by 110 countries. I was distracted from my thoughts suddenly as two...

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