Lesson 1 · Global Health Research · Step 4 of 5
From efficacy to impact: translation, implementation, and evaluation
A proven treatment still has to reach people, and the distance between what works and what gets delivered has a name: the delivery gap, or know-do gap. Oral rehydration therapy launched in 1971, and thirty years on its global coverage was still climbing, while vaccines, drugs and diagnostics in the United States reach full coverage in about five years. Closing that gap is itself a research problem, and it belongs to policy and implementation research, the science of scale up.
Also covered: Translational research · Health policy and systems research · Program evaluation · Impact evaluation · Program monitoring · Process evaluation
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Lesson 1 · 5 steps
1What global health means, and why equity is in the definition7:182What research is, and what makes it scientific7:203The research landscape: basic, applied, and the clinical trial pipeline9:074From efficacy to impact: translation, implementation, and evaluation7:305Who pays, who decides, and where the work lives4:59
Foundations of Global Health Research · lesson 1 of 5