Systems and implementation science should be part of the COVID-19 response in low resource settings

Mike English^{1

2}, Mosa Moshabela³, Jacinta Nzinga^{4

5}, Edwine Barasa^{6

4}, Benjamin Tsofa⁵, Bruno Marchal⁷, Margaret E Kruk⁸

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. menglish@kemri-wellcome.org.
² KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. menglish@kemri-wellcome.org.
³ School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁴ KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵ Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, KEMRI, Kilifi, Kenya.
⁶ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁷ Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁸ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

Mike English et al. BMC Med. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 15;18(1):219.

doi: 10.1186/s12916-020-01696-6.

Mike English^{1

2}, Mosa Moshabela³, Jacinta Nzinga^{4

5}, Edwine Barasa^{6

4}, Benjamin Tsofa⁵, Bruno Marchal⁷, Margaret E Kruk⁸

¹ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. menglish@kemri-wellcome.org.
² KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. menglish@kemri-wellcome.org.
³ School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁴ KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵ Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, KEMRI, Kilifi, Kenya.
⁶ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁷ Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁸ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors are involved in research on health systems or implementation science and receive funding for such work.

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