Enhancing knowledge transfer and exchange: Reflections from the Seattle workshop on evidence-informed policymaking

This paper identifies key insights from the international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) workshop on Supporting Evidence-Informed Policymaking, held in Seattle (October 2015), drawn from the full report of the workshop (Lavis, 2016), with additional reflections on how iDSI aims to implement these best practices. The five key areas for iDSI to address are: knowing the policy context, enhancing knowledge brokers, enhancing evidence producers, better communication, and aligning theories of change. iDSI is already conducting a number of activities in these areas and will continue to do so throughout 2016-2018, to support evidence-informed priority-setting in low and middleincome countries, and to strengthen institutional capacities for sustainable knowledge transfer and exchange.