Background The gap between research and practice or policy is often described as a
problem. To identify new barriers of and facilitators to the use of evidence by policymakers …

Background There is increasing recognition that the development of evidence-informed
health policy is not only a technical problem of knowledge exchange or translation, but also …

Evidence-based policymaking (EBP) contends that policy decisions are successful when
informed by evidence. However, where policy problems are “wicked”(systemic, ambiguous …

COOKING DATA is an ethnographic study of how demographic data is collected, handled,
processed, and manipulated by fieldworkers, researchers, policymakers, and NGOs in …

Undernutrition is the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease and can be
addressed through a number of highly efficacious interventions. Undernutrition generally …

The development of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has
transformed the world over the last two decades. These technologies are often seen as …

The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often
overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the social'in social …

Background The need for research-based knowledge to inform health policy formulation and
implementation is a chronic global concern impacting health systems functioning and …

Over the last three decades, there has been a significant focus on collecting and utilizing
extensive data to enhance governance in the education sector of low-and middle-income …

During the early 1990s, global health experts developed a new model of emergency
obstetric care: post-abortion care or PAC. In developing countries with restrictive abortion …