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Enhancing Women's Health Research for Effective Policy Impact

This paper explores the intersection of women's health research and policy, emphasizing the need for substantive progress in reproductive health (RH) and women's empowerment. It highlights methodological advancements in research, including randomized and longitudinal studies, while addressing challenges in measurement. The authors argue for cross-disciplinary collaboration and the importance of aligning research with policy agendas. Effective communication strategies are discussed to engage key stakeholders, ensuring that research influences policy and drives meaningful change in women's health and well-being.

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Enhancing Women's Health Research for Effective Policy Impact

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  1. WHAT NEXT? Anju Malhotra International Center for Research on Women

  2. Substantive Progress • Movement in all three areas • More on RH  Women’s heath/wellbeing • Many in the seed stage • More with program, less policy relevance • Work by fellows especially exciting

  3. Methodological Progress • More randomized, panel/longitudinal designs • More comprehensive in measuring health and economic factors • Many measurement challenges remain • Fruit of methodological investments yet to be borne

  4. Going Forward • It doesn’t happen on its own: research has to be made policy savvy • Economists can’t do it alone

  5. Individual Studies Bodies of Work Accumulation of Evidence Alignment of evidence with agendas Extraction, synthesis simplification of evidence Messaging Based on Simplified evidence Communicating to champions & stakeholders Communi- cating to donors, policymakers The Path from Research to Policy Impact AT THE RIGHT TIME

  6. This will Take More Than a Communication Strategy: • Raising policy awareness and relevance among researchers • Training on framing research questions for policy relevance • Hewlett/PRB –iterative process on asking the right questions • Pushing research boundaries • on methodologies • Looking at the simple, not just the complex

  7. Economists can’t do it Alone • Haven’t we been there, done that? • Context, Culture, Reproductive Health, Women’s Empowerment! • Cross-disciplinary collaboration--Use it! Build on it! • Non-Economists—offer much on conceptualizing, measuring,contexualizing population and RH issues • most exciting work is coming from collaborative efforts • Local perspective and expertise on the research agenda

  8. Revisiting the Big Picture • Who is the audience—the Minister of Finance? • Are we part of a bigger movement—that can resonate with those who have money and power? • What agenda do current global and local conditions call for? • Political and economic scene has shifted • Is it “Why Population & RH” or is it “How Population & RH”? • Is the Population agenda and the RH agenda really the same, to the same audience, and saleable in the same way?

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