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

ABSTRACT:

Background

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

SUBMITTER: Mancuso A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8356374 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature