New Evidence & Policy issue – Volume 21: Issue 3

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The editorial team of Evidence & Policy are excited to share this special collection of articles focused on the intersections between health, evidence use, and the application of research within evolving and complex public health policy contexts.

Articles in this issue explore and critically examine innovative models and frameworks (i.e., Functional Dialogue, Policy Advisory Boards) for leveraging research to inform policy in times of public health crisis (specifically, the COVID-19 pandemic). They also focus on improving medical practice (i.e., Knowledge Brokering, Contemporary Implementation of Traditional knowledge and Evidence (CITE) Framework, Integrated Systems of Care), as well as efforts to expand and broaden health care coverage and directly influence policy addressing structural determinants of health (Participatory Deliberative Processes).

Across pieces, this collection offers the following field-building questions:

  1. What role can researchers have in times of public health crisis?
  2.  What strategies are effective in leveraging research to promote policy change?
  3. How can knowledge brokering and relation networks both inform and transform systems of health care as well as patient experience?

As we look ahead, we continue to invite conversation, discourse, and research around the intersections between health research and public health policy.

Aware of macro-level contexts and international movement building, we hope as a journal to invite transparent and rigorous research around: 1) what strategies might researchers use in systems and settings critical of such scholarship, and 2) how might research compete with exemplars of misuse and the dominant media landscape in relation to public health issues?

Read Evidence & Policy Volume 21: Issue 3 online.

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