| Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Health: The Epidemiologist as Accountable Health Advocate ("AHA!"). | |
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PMID: 23038116 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Epidemiology occupies a unique role as a knowledge-generating scientific discipline with roots in the knowledge translation of public health practice. As our fund of incompletely-translated knowledge expands and as budgets for health research contract, epidemiology must rediscover and adapt its historical skill set in knowledge translation. The existing incentive structures of academic epidemiology - designed largely for knowledge generation - are ill-equipped to train and develop epidemiologists as knowledge translators. A useful heuristic is the epidemiologist as Accountable Health Advocate (AHA) who enables society to judge the value of research, develops new methods to translate existing knowledge into improved health, and actively engages with policymakers and society. Changes to incentive structures could include novel funding streams (and review), alternative publication practices, and parallel frameworks for professional advancement and promotion. |
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David W Dowdy; Madhukar Pai |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) Volume: 23 ISSN: 1531-5487 ISO Abbreviation: Epidemiology Publication Date: 2012 Nov |
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Created Date: 2012-10-05 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9009644 Medline TA: Epidemiology Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 914-8 Citation Subset: IM |
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From the aDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; and bDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. |
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