Abstract
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.
Highlights
The Bamako Call for Action on Research for Health [1] arose from a meeting of Ministers of Health, Education, Science & Technology, Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, from 59 countries; as well as researchers, policy makers, civil society representatives, journal editors and development agencies
From 17–19th November, 2008, in Bamako, Mali, amid presentations on the conference theme of "Strengthening Research for Health, Development and Equity" the call was crafted, having benefited from recent regional 'feeder' meetings in Algiers, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran. This Ministerial conference, which occurs once every four years, is agenda setting; on this occasion the agenda being to change the way in which health research is undertaken
IJsselmuiden and Matlin [2] note that the scope of health research is broad, including, for example, biomedical and public health research, research on health policy and systems, environmental health, science and technology, operational research, as well as social science and behavioural research
Summary
The Bamako Call for Action on Research for Health [1] arose from a meeting of Ministers of Health, Education, Science & Technology, Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, from 59 countries; as well as researchers, policy makers, civil society representatives, journal editors and development agencies. Globalization and Health 2009, 5:6 http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/5/1/6 that there is a need to rethink our approach to research in global and public health and to complement narrow research specialisations with a new cadre of researchers who have expertise concerning the context and process of research, as well as its content, and the interplay of these knowledge domains. One well known approach to policy analysis stresses the importance of distinguishing between content, context and process [4].
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