LIST OF PANELS

“So long as researchers presume that research findings must be brought to bear upon a single event, a discrete act of decision making, they will be missing those circumstances and processes where, in fact, research can be useful.” (Rist 1994)  Twenty years later in their 2014 systematic review of evidence-based policy Oliver,  Lorenc & Innvær  (2014) conclude that lack of significant advance in understanding whether evidence improves policy has occurred because the  “agenda of ‘ getting evidence into policy’  has side-lined the empirical description and analysis of how research and policy actually interact in vivo”. This panel will address this gap by presenting empirical studies of the interactions between research, policy and practice in health and health equity.  It will bring together researchers and policy-makers who work on diverse health problems, in various national and international contexts, and from different disciplinary perspectives. It highlight successful mechanisms to support these interactions and will contribute to the development of models of co-production that lead to better policy.  

“So long as researchers presume that research findings must be brought to bear upon a single event, a discrete act of decision making, they will be missing those circumstances and processes where, in fact, research can be useful.” (Rist 1994)  Twenty years later in their 2014 systematic review of evidence-based policy Oliver,  Lorenc & Innvær  (2014) conclude that lack of significant advance in understanding whether evidence improves policy has occurred because the  “agenda of ‘ getting evidence into policy’  has side-lined the empirical description and analysis of how research and policy actually interact in vivo”. This panel will address this gap by presenting empirical studies of the interactions between research, policy and practice in health and health equity.  It will bring together researchers and policy-makers who work on diverse health problems, in various national and international contexts, and from different disciplinary perspectives. It highlight successful mechanisms to support these interactions and will contribute to the development of models of co-production that lead to better policy.