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- Title
From Kisiizi to Baltimore: cultivating knowledge brokers to support global innovation for community engagement in healthcare.
- Authors
Ibe, Chidinma A.; Basu, Lopa; Gooden, Rachel; Syed, Shamsuzzoha B.; Dadwal, Viva; Bone, Lee R.; Ephraim, Patti L.; Weston, Christine M.; Wu, Albert W.; for the Baltimore CONNECT Project Team; Barron, J.; Boonyasai, R. T.; Gentry, J.; Gibbons, M. C.; Lief, I.; Lu, Y.; Rogers, M.; Rosenblum, M.; Purnell, L.; Baltimore CONNECT Project Team
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Reverse Innovation has been endorsed as a vehicle for promoting bidirectional learning and information flow between low- and middle-income countries and high-income countries, with the aim of tackling common unmet needs. One such need, which traverses international boundaries, is the development of strategies to initiate and sustain community engagement in health care delivery systems.<bold>Objective: </bold>In this commentary, we discuss the Baltimore "Community-based Organizations Neighborhood Network: Enhancing Capacity Together" Study. This randomized controlled trial evaluated whether or not a community engagement strategy, developed to address patient safety in low- and middle-income countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, could be successfully applied to create and implement strategies that would link community-based organizations to a local health care system in Baltimore, a city in the United States. Specifically, we explore the trial's activation of community knowledge brokers as the conduit through which community engagement, and innovation production, was achieved. Cultivating community knowledge brokers holds promise as a vehicle for advancing global innovation in the context of health care delivery systems. As such, further efforts to discern the ways in which they may promote the development and dissemination of innovations in health care systems is warranted.<bold>Trial Registration: </bold>Trial Registration Number: NCT02222909 . Trial Register Name: Reverse Innovation and Patient Engagement to Improve Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes (CONNECT). Date of Trial's Registration: August 22, 2014.
- Subjects
CRUISE control; BIDIRECTIONAL associative memories (Computer science); SYSTEMS integrators; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; TRANSBORDER data flow
- Publication
Globalization & Health, 2018, Vol 14, p1
- ISSN
1744-8603
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12992-018-0339-8