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...

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...

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...

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...