Rethinking global health research: towards integrative expertise
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MacLachlan, M., Rethinking global health research: towards integrative expertise, Globalization and Health, 5, 6, 2009Download Item:
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The Bamako Call for Action on Research for Health stresses the importance of inter-disciplinary,
inter-ministerial and inter-sectoral working. This challenges much of our current research and
postgraduate research training in health, which mostly seeks to produce narrowly focused content
specialists. We now need to compliment this type of research and research training, by offering
alternative pathways that seek to create expertise, not only in specific narrow content areas, but
also in the process and context of research, as well as in the interaction of these different facets of
knowledge. Such an approach, developing 'integrative expertise', could greatly facilitate better
research utilisation, helping policy makers and practitioners work through more evidence-based
practice and across traditional research boundaries.
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