A platform is an organization, consortium, or network. It’s a permanent (in that it doesn’t have an end date) institution that collects research on a broad range of health-related issues and recommends potential policies or guidelines to policy makers where there is enough data to make a determination.
The Research Unit for Research Utilisation aims to improve the understanding of how research interacts with policy and practice and investigates the use of social science research in public policy and service delivery settings.
Read More…Equinet, the Regional Network on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa aims to promote and realise shared values of equity and social justice in health. It gathers people to overcome isolation, give voice and promote networking.
Read More…Governance and Social Development Resource Centre provides applied knowledge services on demand and online, relating to issues of governance, social development, humanitarian response and conflict.
Read More…The UK Collaborative on Development Sciences work in international development, ensuring science is funded and used to benefit development, internationally as well as in the UK.
Read More…DECIDE's aim was to increase the use of evidence based interventions in a sustainable way and to reduce the use of interventions where benefits are uncertain, by developing and evaluating targeted dissemination strategies.
Read More…PIRU develops rigorous research evidence to support innovation in health and social care policy.
Read More…The Africa Evidence Network is a part of BCURE, it is a community of people working in Africa, looking at evidence, its production and use in decision making.
Read More…EVIPNet promotes the systematic use of health research evidence in policymaking. Focusing on LMICs, it promotes policy development and implementation through the use of the best scientific evidence available.
Read More…Zambia Forum for Health Research (ZAMFOHR) is a knowledge translation platform designed to strengthen the capacity of researchers and research-users to produce, synthesise, access, adapt and use evidence.
Read More…The Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) undertakes systematic reviews of educational, behavioural, financial, regulatory and organisation interventions to improve health practice and services.
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