Cross-cutting lessons from the Decision-Maker Led Implementation Research initiative

Almost 20 million children under one year of age did not receive basic vaccines in 2019, and most of these children lived in low- and middle-income countries. Implementation research has been recognized as an emerging area that is critical to strengthen the implementation of interventions proven to be effective. As a component of strengthening implementation, WHO has called for greater embedding of research within decision-making processes. One strategy to facilitate the embedding of research is to engage decision-makers as Principal Investigators of the research. Since 2015, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research within the WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund have supported decision-maker led research by partnering with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in an initiative called Decision-Maker Led Implementation Research. This synthesis paper describes the cross-cutting lessons from the initiative to further understand and develop future use of the decision-maker led strategy.

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Mancuso, A., Ahmed Malm, S., Sharkey, A. et al. Cross-cutting lessons from the Decision-Maker Led Implementation Research initiative. Health Res Policy Sys 19, 83 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00706-0