Bridge health research gaps to impact lives in Africa

Research and innovation are indispensable for achieving universal health coverage and national development priorities.

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African countries must heed to experts’ recent call for stronger collaboration between scientists, policymakers and communities to bridge the gap between research and implementation.

Lamentably, there is limited impact of African research on public health and community wellbeing. That is why the call made by researchers, policymakers and journalists at the recently held, first national science research translation congress, must be taken seriously.

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