Using Health Research in Policy and Practice

Using Health Research in Policy and Practice:
Ray Moynihan
"Many policymakers and clinicians take professional pleasure in grounding their decisions in the best available evidence, especially when they have confidence in that evidence and access to it when they need it. Similarly, many researchers are eager for their work to be useful, especially when they are only required to communicate it in journal articles and on a schedule that they choose.
In this report, Ray Moynihan, an experienced journalist, describes collaboration between researchers and users of their skills and findings in nine countries. Moynihan introduces the report by briefly recapitulating controversial issues in the application of knowledge derived from research to policy and practice. He concludes by describing common themes in the nine stories. "