Mapping regional cooperation of state actors for health research systems in Africa: A social network analysis.

ABSTRACT: Regional bodies can potentially play an important role in improving health research in Africa. This study analyses the network of African state-based regional organisations for health research and assesses their potential relationship with national health research performance metrics. After cataloguing organisations and their membership, we conducted a social network analysis to determine key network attributes of national governments' connections via regional organisations supporting functions of health research systems. This data was used to test the hypothesis that state actors with more connections to other actors via regional organisations would have higher levels of health research performance across indicators. With 21 unique regional organisations, the African continent is densely

SUBMITTER: Hedquist A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022136 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature