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Science Translation for Policy and Practice

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Group Overview

The working group focuses on bridging the gap between scientific research and actionable solutions to address planetary health challenges. Its activities include identifying approaches for the conduct of interdisciplinary research to address policy maker needs, exploring frameworks for best practices and the fostering of collaborations between scientists, policymakers, and practitioners. The working group focuses on issues related to translating complex environmental and health data into accessible formats.

It also seeks to characterise the barriers to the implementation of science-based solutions and propose strategies to overcome them. The working group emphasizes the importance of knowledge co-creation, ensuring research findings directly address a range of policy, societal and ecological needs.

Project Leads

Led by project coordinators for PLANET4HEALTH, GoGreen Next, SPRINGS, TULIP, MOSAIC.

Scientific Synergy

Examples of our approach to scientific synergy includes:

  • Identifying overlaps and convergence of threats to ecosystems and human health across our projects
  • Using project overlaps to describe and redress intra- and intergenerational injustices, marginalization, vulnerability, and disproportionate distribution of health burden in the environmental degradation context
  • Developing shared methodologies that employ interdisciplinary approaches and open e-science to address planetary health urgencies
  • Developing joint actions to work with communities, stakeholders, and policymakers to achieve greater policy impact
  • Expanding our collaborations to other EU-funded clusters, particularly the Climate and Health Cluster

Key output

The key output of the working group is a Policy Strategy as well as joint policy briefs. To support the creation of this strategy, a survey was designed by the working group leads with the aim of exploring how members incorporate policy impact considerations into the design and conduct of their research, recognizing that generating evidence alone is insufficient for policymaking without actions that ensure its uptake and dissemination. This is particularly important for research addressing issues with significant social and political implications, such as climate change.

The survey is structured around a conceptual framework for research-to-policy translation, organized along multiple dimensions, and informed by best practices in evidence-informed decision-making highlighted in the literature. By capturing insights into how researchers align their work with policy needs to ensure relevance to decision-making processes the strategy seeks to clarify the pathways from research to policy impact within the Planetary Health cluster.

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