Research must optimise delivery of existing interventions - Nyarko

World Health Organisation (WHO) representative to Botswana Dr Eugene Nyarko told participants at the official opening of a WHO training workshop on Implementation Research held at the University of Botswana (UB) yesterday that despite the growing knowledge base on evidence-based practices in social work and medicine, there is a large gap between what is consistently done in research and what is implemented.

He said the value of research in providing solutions and options for overcoming implementation obstacles in health delivery, disease control programmes and the health system in general is increasingly being recognised.
"Research has become a very important and powerful tool, now more than ever, in improving the health status of populations and in health care delivery," said Nyarko.