Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD, United States of America.
Health Res Policy Syst. 2021 Jan 18;19(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s12961-020-00670-1.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created urgent demand around the world for knowledge generation about a novel coronavirus, its transmission, and control, putting academic institutions at the frontline of politics. While many academic institutions are well poised to conduct research, there are well-documented barriers for these institutions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), to further conduct strategic synthesis and dissemination to promote knowledge utilization among policy-makers. These systemic barriers to knowledge translation (KT) pose significant challenges for academic institutions seeking to take advantage of unprecedented policy windows to inform evidence-based decision-making. Global health funding organizations should prioritize the support of academic institutions' activities along the KT pathway, including both knowledge generation and strategic dissemination, to improve knowledge uptake for decision-making to improve health. Institutional capacity-building initiatives for KT have the potential to profoundly impact responses to this and future pandemics.
新冠疫情在全球范围内迫切需要关于新型冠状病毒、其传播和控制的知识，这使得学术机构成为政治的前沿阵地。虽然许多学术机构都具备开展研究的良好条件，但这些机构，特别是中低收入国家（LMICs），在进行战略综合和传播以促进决策者利用知识方面存在着有据可查的障碍。知识转化（KT）的这些系统性障碍对试图利用前所未有的政策窗口为循证决策提供信息的学术机构构成了重大挑战。全球卫生资助组织应优先支持学术机构沿着 KT 途径开展活动，包括知识生成和战略传播，以提高知识在决策中的应用，改善卫生状况。知识转化的机构能力建设倡议有可能对应对当前和未来的疫情产生深远影响。
