Profiles
14 Jun 2010Tony Vander Voet discusses the “Innovation Chain”
Dr Vander Voet, an independent consultant on research and innovation policy, is a former assistant deputy minister in the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. His new model–the “Innovation Chain”–may help researchers and policymakers better understand how to bring the results of scientific discovery to bear on the control of infectious diseases of poverty.
Q:You’ve developed […]
Overview
Kampala meeting examines ways to deliver new tools to control the infectious diseases of poverty
An overview of the Access meeting held in Kampala, Uganda, 28–30th June 2010.
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1 Jul 2010Day 3 - 30 June 2010
The final day began with an introduction from Chair Dr Seth Owusu-Agyei, who outlined the agenda for the day. Delegates then moved into the heart of the day’s programme with feedback and presentations from the groups covering the remaining chapters of the framework document.
During the course of the day, the […]
Session reports
Implementation research in context…
Day 3 - SESSION REPORT
Plenary 5: Feedback from groups and discussion of key emerging issues
The first session of the day began with feedback from the groups covering chapters 4 to 7 of the framework document, namely: Product development partnerships and their partners- A view from the push side; Global initiatives and international implementing partners and […]
Emerging issues on access and delivery of new tools, strategies and interventions
Day 2:
Plenary 3: Feedback from groups and discussion of key emerging issues
The first session of the day began with feedback from the groups covering the first three chapters of the report.
Group 1 was tasked with Chapter 1: Challenges for access and delivery and the role of Implementation Research. The group held an open and broad […]
Interviews
24 Jun 2010Rebecca Weintraub from the Global Health Delivery Project
Rebecca Weintraub is executive director of the Global Health Delivery Project, an associate physician in the division of social medicine and health inequalities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Co-founder of Jumpstart, the largest part-time AmeriCorps program in the nation, she currently serves as a technical advisor […]
Read Interview... 24 Jun 2010Dr. Rhonda Sarnoff from the Institute for One World Health
An interview with iOWH’s Rhonda Sarnoff: “Implementation research offers a way to explore, test and refine programs that address the barriers and opportunities in the local context”
Dr. Rhonda Sarnoff is director of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and field research at the Institute for One World Health (iOWH). She has conducted policy research on access to […]
Opinions
National Public Health Institutes: The Cornerstone of Effective Disease Prevention and Control Efforts
An opinion piece by Dr. Jeffrey P. Koplan, a former director and 26-year veteran of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and co-founder and president of IANPHI.
National Public Health Institutes (NPHI) are government units that focus on populations and communities and through scientific study and technical expertise seek to control and prevent diseases […]
Features
Building an evidence base for health systems strengthening in low- and middle-income countries
The work of the Norwegian satellite of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) group
Simon Lewin, Andy Oxman, Susan Munabi-BabigumiraNorwegian Satellite of the Cochrane EPOC group, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway
The achievement of health goals, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), is more likely to be realized through […]