Strengthening capacity to apply health research evidence in policy making: experience from four countries

This paper describes the experiences of five projects where collaborative teams of researchers and policy makers/policy influencers worked to strengthen policy maker capacity to increase the use of evidence in policy. The paper concludes that strengthening the capacity of individuals and organizations is an important but likely insufficient step in ensuring use of evidence in policy. Evidence-informed policy making requires strengthening institutional capacity, as well as understanding and addressing the political environment, and incentives facing policy makers

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Hawkes S, Aulakh B, Jadeja N, Jimenez M, Buse K, Anwar I et al. Strengthening capacity to apply health research evidence in policy making: experience from four countries. Health policy and planning. 2015;31(2):161-70. doi:10.1093/heapol/czv032