@article{c248202a91ae496ea4439cec032c34c9,
title = "Enhancing evidence-informed decision making: Strategies for engagement between public health faculty and policymakers in Kenya",
abstract = "This article examines the complex interactions and strategies for engagement - both existing as well as desired - between academic Knowledge Brokers (KBs) and national health policymakers in Kenya. Based on semi-structured interviews with academic KBs and university leaders from six Schools of Public Health (SPHs) as well as national policymakers, the authors found that a delicate balance between leveraging personal individual relationships and establishing more sustained institutional partnerships is important for engagement. The authors provide a list of recommended strategies for effective and tailored engagement, and highlight the important but under-appreciated dual role of academic KBs within Kenyan universities.",
keywords = "Engagement strategy, Evidence-informed decision making, Kenya, Knowledge brokering, Schools of public health",
author = "Nasreen Jessani and Caitlin Kennedy and Sara Bennett",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank the leadership across the six Kenyan SPHs for their support in facilitating our efforts. Willingness of faculty as well as policymakers to be interviewed made this study possible. The authors express their appreciation for the financial support (Grant #H050474) provided by the UK Department for International Development for the Future Health Systems research programme consortium, as well as reviewers for earlier versions of this manuscript. This research was supported in part by a dissertation enhancement award from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Centre for Qualitative Studies in Health and Medicine. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the funders. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Policy Press 2017.",
year = "2017",
month = may,
doi = "10.1332/174426416X14595114153349",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
pages = "225--253",
journal = "Evidence and Policy",
issn = "1744-2648",
publisher = "Policy Press",
number = "2",
}