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. 2022 Sep 15;10(Suppl 1):e2200318.
doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00318. Print 2022 Sep 15.

The African Health Initiative's Role in Advancing the Use of Embedded Implementation Research for Health Systems Strengthening

Abdul Ghaffar  1 , Livia Dal Zennaro  2 , Nhan Tran  3
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The African Health Initiative's Role in Advancing the Use of Embedded Implementation Research for Health Systems Strengthening

Abdul Ghaffar et al. Glob Health Sci Pract. .

Abstract

The African Health Initiative has demonstrated the feasibility of changing the traditional knowledge generation paradigm by using an embedded implementation research approach to improve health systems’ performance and strengthen capacity for knowledge generation and use.

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