Learning Health Systems to Bridge the Evidence-Policy-Practice Gap in Primary Health Care: Lessons From the African Health Initiative

The compilation of lessons in this supplement on the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s African Health Initiative’s work in the application of implementation research in primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa reflects the evolution of the discipline that is now increasingly recognized as integral to health systems strengthening.

[1]  Barriers and Facilitators to Data Use for Decision Making: The Experience of the African Health Initiative Partnerships in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[2]  Abebaw Gebeyehu,et al.  Drivers and Barriers to Improved Data Quality and Data-Use Practices: An Interpretative Qualitative Study in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[3]  Embedding Research on Implementation of Primary Health Care Systems Strengthening: A Commentary on Collaborative Experiences in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[4]  A. Ghaffar,et al.  The African Health Initiative’s Role in Advancing the Use of Embedded Implementation Research for Health Systems Strengthening , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[5]  B. Wagenaar,et al.  Maternal and Child Health Care Service Disruptions and Recovery in Mozambique After Cyclone Idai: An Uncontrolled Interrupted Time Series Analysis , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[6]  S. Chicumbe,et al.  The Use of Research for Health Systems Policy Development and Implementation in Mozambique: A Descriptive Study , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[7]  J. Awoonor-Williams,et al.  Using Health Systems and Policy Research to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in Ghana , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[8]  Caroline Soi,et al.  Applying the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to Identify Implementation Determinants for the Integrated District Evidence-to-Action Program, Mozambique , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[9]  Frehiwot Mulugeta,et al.  Lessons Learned From the Capacity-Building and Mentorship Program to Improve Health Information Systems in 11 Districts of Ethiopia , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[10]  Frehiwot Mulugeta,et al.  Maternal Service Coverage and Its Relationship To Health Information System Performance: A Linked Facility and Population-Based Survey in Ethiopia , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[11]  S. Chicumbe,et al.  Primary Health Care Management Effectiveness as a Driver of Family Planning Service Readiness: A Cross-Sectional Analysis in Central Mozambique , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[12]  A. Bawah,et al.  “You Can’t Look at an Orange and Draw a Banana”: Using Research Evidence to Develop Relevant Health Policy in Ghana , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[13]  A. Binagwaho,et al.  Health System Resilience: Withstanding Shocks and Maintaining Progress , 2022, Global health, science and practice.

[14]  R. Scherpbier,et al.  Closing the know-do gap for child health: UNICEF’s experiences from embedding implementation research in child health and nutrition programming , 2020, Implementation Science Communications.

[15]  James Hargreaves,et al.  Implementation research in LMICs—evolution through innovation , 2020, Health policy and planning.

[16]  L. Hirschhorn,et al.  The All Babies Count Initiative: Impact of a Health System Improvement Approach on Neonatal Care and Outcomes in Rwanda , 2020, Global Health: Science and Practice.

[17]  E. Langlois,et al.  Health system decision-makers at the helm of implementation research: development of a framework to evaluate the processes and effectiveness of embedded approaches , 2020, Health Research Policy and Systems.

[18]  Michel Wensing,et al.  Knowledge translation in health: how implementation science could contribute more , 2019, BMC Medicine.

[19]  Sameh El-Saharty,et al.  Implementation research: new imperatives and opportunities in global health , 2018, The Lancet.

[20]  Didi Bertrand Farmer,et al.  Improving data quality across 3 sub-Saharan African countries using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR): results from the African Health Initiative , 2017, BMC Health Services Research.

[21]  Didi Bertrand Farmer,et al.  Mentorship and coaching to support strengthening healthcare systems: lessons learned across the five Population Health Implementation and Training partnership projects in sub-Saharan Africa , 2017, BMC Health Services Research.

[22]  Didi Bertrand Farmer,et al.  Research capacity building integrated into PHIT projects: leveraging research and research funding to build national capacity , 2017, BMC Health Services Research.

[23]  Didi Bertrand Farmer,et al.  Measuring health systems strength and its impact: experiences from the African Health Initiative , 2017, BMC Health Services Research.

[24]  Didi Bertrand Farmer,et al.  Tackling the hard problems: implementation experience and lessons learned in newborn health from the African Health Initiative , 2017, BMC Health Services Research.

[25]  Didi Bertrand Farmer,et al.  Data-driven quality improvement in low-and middle-income country health systems: lessons from seven years of implementation experience across Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia , 2017, BMC Health Services Research.

[26]  Didi Bertrand Farmer,et al.  Health system strengthening: a qualitative evaluation of implementation experience and lessons learned across five African countries , 2017, BMC Health Services Research.

[27]  J. Awoonor-Williams,et al.  Bridging the intervention-implementation gap in primary health care delivery: the critical role of integrated implementation research , 2017, BMC Health Services Research.

[28]  Jennifer Leeman,et al.  Beyond “implementation strategies”: classifying the full range of strategies used in implementation science and practice , 2017, Implementation Science.

[29]  K. Rasanathan,et al.  Strengthening health systems through embedded research , 2017, Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

[30]  J. Awoonor-Williams,et al.  Catalyzing the scale-up of community-based primary healthcare in a rural impoverished region of northern Ghana. , 2016, The International journal of health planning and management.

[31]  V. Ridde.  Need for more and better implementation science in global health , 2016, BMJ Global Health.

[32]  L. Gilson.  Implementing health system change: What are the lessons from the African Health Initiative? , 2013, BMC Health Services Research.

[33]  Fatuma Manzi,et al.  The Tanzania Connect Project: a cluster-randomized trial of the child survival impact of adding paid community health workers to an existing facility-focused health system , 2013, BMC Health Services Research.

[34]  S. Gimbel,et al.  Strengthening integrated primary health care in Sofala, Mozambique , 2013, BMC Health Services Research.

[35]  Robert E Black,et al.  A common evaluation framework for the African Health Initiative , 2013, BMC Health Services Research.

[36]  L. Hirschhorn,et al.  Approaches to ensuring and improving quality in the context of health system strengthening: a cross-site analysis of the five African Health Initiative Partnership programs , 2013, BMC Health Services Research.

[37]  K. Sherr,et al.  Implementation research to catalyze advances in health systems strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa: the African Health Initiative , 2013, BMC Health Services Research.

[38]  C. Amoroso,et al.  Improving health information systems for decision making across five sub-Saharan African countries: Implementation strategies from the African Health Initiative , 2013, BMC Health Services Research.