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EVIPNet Africa's first series of policy briefs to support evidence-informed policymaking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2010

John N. Lavis  and
Ulysses Panisset
John N. Lavis
Affiliation:
McMaster University
Ulysses Panisset
Affiliation:
World Health Organization
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EVIPNet (Evidence-Informed Policy Network) Africa—a network of World Health Organization (WHO)-sponsored knowledge-translation (KT) platforms in seven sub-Saharan African countries—was launched at a meeting in Brazzaville, Congo, in March 2006 (1;2). EVIPNet Africa can trace its origins to resolutions from both the Ministerial Summit on Health Research (November 2004) and the World Health Assembly (May 2005) (10;11), the spirit of which was re-affirmed at the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health (November 2008) (13). The World Health Assembly called for “establishing or strengthening mechanisms to transfer knowledge in support of evidence-based public health and health care delivery systems and evidence-based related policies” (10). EVIPNet Africa can trace its inspiration to a more local development: the preparatory work that led to the establishment of the East African Community–sponsored Regional East African Community Health (REACH) Policy initiative, a KT platform involving Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda (and more recently Burundi and Rwanda as well). REACH Policy is now part of the EVIPNet Africa family.

Keywords

Policy makingPolicy briefResearch evidenceKnowledge translation
Type
THEME SECTION: OPTIONS FOR IMPROVING MALARIA TREATMENT
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 229 - 232
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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