From Kisiizi to Baltimore: cultivating knowledge brokers to support global innovation for community engagement in healthcare.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reverse Innovation has been endorsed as a vehicle for promoting bidirectional learning and information flow between low- and middle-income countries and high-income countries, with the aim of tackling common unmet needs. One such need, which traverses international boundaries, is the development of strategies to initiate and sustain community engagement in health care delivery systems.

Objective

In this commentary, we discuss the Baltimore "Community-based Organizations Neighborhood Network: Enhancing Capacity Together" Study. This randomized controlled trial evaluated whether or not a community engagement strategy, developed to address patient safety in low- and middle-income countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, could be successfully applied to create and imp

SUBMITTER: Ibe CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5807858 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature