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NetworkRx Blog: November 2014
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Friday, November 14, 2014. What sacred crocodiles and meat festivals can teach us about evidence-informed health policy. Last week my colleagues and I published a paper in Implementation Science: “Exchanging and Using Research Evidence in Health Policy Networks: a statistical network analysis.”. We set out to understand which network factors might increase the likelihood that actors exchange research evidence with each other. Here's why this is important:. Using exponential random graph models. Replicate...
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NetworkRx Blog: Big ideas from Dominic Mutai
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Big ideas from Dominic Mutai. The following is an interview I did with my colleague Dominic Mutai. For the PATH M&E newsletter. Dominic is a disruptive thinker in Kisumu, Kenya. Q: Before you joined PATH you developed a mobile app to predict a patient's risk of tuberculosis, and you were funded by a BMGF Grand Challenges grant. Tell us about your app and where you see these types of predictive technologies going in the future. Photo courtesy D. Mutai. Big ideas from Dominic Mutai.
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NetworkRx Blog: Knowledge brokers: the bridge to somewhere
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Knowledge brokers: the bridge to somewhere. This post is based on a blog in the PATH M&E Community of Practice newsletter. Why do we need knowledge brokers? In her seminal article about the diffusion of innovations in healthcare organizations. Trisha Greenhalgh said, “knowledge depends for its circulation on interpersonal networks, and will only diffuse if these social features are taken into account and barriers overcome.”. Why are we reticent to ask for information? That’...
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NetworkRx Blog: Who is the Kevin Bacon of Health Systems Research?
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Monday, November 10, 2014. Who is the Kevin Bacon of Health Systems Research? Earlier, I wrote about network mapping. At the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. We mapped participants' social ties, collaboration ties, and information seeking ties as reported by them on an online survey. Today I will show you the collaboration network generated through this process, as well as the 'real' network of co-authorship relationships generated through data mining. Here's what we got:. Imagine that ...
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NetworkRx Blog: Could playing games improve immunization rates?
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Thursday, December 4, 2014. Could playing games improve immunization rates? I have been following Michael Simmons’ interesting writing on networks and relationships. His most recent article in Forbes. And others about how to build stronger ties in collaboration networks. This is an area of interest for myself and colleagues at PATH and IHME working on an evaluation of Gavi support in four countries. Presented some preliminary results at. Don’t they just happen organically? Photo from Outlook Business.
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NetworkRx Blog: June 2015
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Big ideas from Dominic Mutai. The following is an interview I did with my colleague Dominic Mutai. For the PATH M&E newsletter. Dominic is a disruptive thinker in Kisumu, Kenya. Q: Before you joined PATH you developed a mobile app to predict a patient's risk of tuberculosis, and you were funded by a BMGF Grand Challenges grant. Tell us about your app and where you see these types of predictive technologies going in the future. Photo courtesy D. Mutai. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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NetworkRx Blog: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Knowledge brokers: the bridge to somewhere. This post is based on a blog in the PATH M&E Community of Practice newsletter. Why do we need knowledge brokers? In her seminal article about the diffusion of innovations in healthcare organizations. Trisha Greenhalgh said, “knowledge depends for its circulation on interpersonal networks, and will only diffuse if these social features are taken into account and barriers overcome.”. Why are we reticent to ask for information? That’...
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NetworkRx Blog: Mapping Networks from HSR 2014
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Monday, October 27, 2014. Mapping Networks from HSR 2014. At the recent Third Global Symposium for Health Systems Research. Jeff Knezovich and I asked participants to complete an online network survey. Our aim was to map the networks (social, collaboration, information seeking) of conference participants. We had some technical glitches with the online tool, slow internet access, and the apathy towards completing a survey that is commonly observed. The experience confirmed:. Install the latest version of.
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NetworkRx Blog: Burkina Faso: Community Health Revolution 2.0?
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. Burkina Faso: Community Health Revolution 2.0? Ouagadougou is burning, and it looks like the end of Blaise Campaoré’s 27 year rule. Forget Ebola on its border, Burkina Faso is experiencing ‘. 8217; a nod to. Thomas Sankara’s revolution. In 1983 and the bold social programs that followed. More often than not, the fate of CHWs followed the trends set by global policy elites. The Bamako Initiative, decentralization, and user fees? IMCI isn’t working? Despite the roller-coaster of...
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NetworkRx Blog: What sacred crocodiles and meat festivals can teach us about evidence-informed health policy
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Friday, November 14, 2014. What sacred crocodiles and meat festivals can teach us about evidence-informed health policy. Last week my colleagues and I published a paper in Implementation Science: “Exchanging and Using Research Evidence in Health Policy Networks: a statistical network analysis.”. We set out to understand which network factors might increase the likelihood that actors exchange research evidence with each other. Here's why this is important:. Using exponential random graph models. Replicate...
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