TJSS2022 preview|Master class 3 : Academic-Government Partnerships in Public Health
July 30, 2022
Governments often talked about evidence-based policy making in public health and clinical medicine. However most national health agencies tend to be bogged down by operations, with a diminished bandwidth to curate evidence and best practices to inform policy setting. Partnerships between academia and policy makers thus present a powerful opportunity for the advocacy, design, and monitoring of health policies and national programmes in health. Such partnerships however cannot be left to chance, but must be deliberately nurtured by a governance framework that explicitly supports the regular flow of information and ideas between academia and government agencies. In this session, I will introduce the value proposition of academic-government partnerships in health, and to illustrate a few national policies that benefitted from such partnerships.
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