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Facilitating the Relationship Between Researchers and Policy-Makers: Experiences from Three Ecohealth Projects in West and Central Africa

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Acknowledgments

This article derives from ongoing discussions of the Policy Working Group of the International Network of Communities of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health (CoPEH-CoIN). The Policy Working Group was formed along with others during the meetings of CoPEH-CoIN at the Ecohealth 2010 conference in London in August 2010. The authors are immensely debtful to all the participants of CoPEH-CoIN, and to its Coordinator, Bob Woollard, for helpful and challenging interactions. We thank Margot Parkes for critical reading of the manuscript prior to submission. We thank also Dominique Charron and Margot Parks for providing their permission to cite their work currently in press that is highly relevant to the topics of researcher-policy maker relationships in the field of environment and human health. This work was made possible thanks to the financial support of the IDRC to the three research projects described here and to CoPEH-CoIN, as well as the support of the NCCR North South program to B. Koné.

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  1. Communauté de Pratiques Ecosanté pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre (COPES-AOC), Cotonou, Benin

    Brama Koné, Yveline A. Houenou, Nicolas Brou, Pascal V. Houenou, Benjamin Fayomi, Emmanuel Ngnikam & Gueladio Cissé

  2. Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

    Brama Koné

  3. Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health (CoPEH-Canada), Toronto, ON, Canada

    Mathieu Feagan, Jerry Spiegel & Edouard Kouassi

  4. York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Mathieu Feagan

  5. Université de Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

    Yveline A. Houenou & Nicolas Brou

  6. Réseau pour l’Environnement et le Développement Durable en Afrique, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

    Nicolas Brou

  7. Université d’Abobo-Adjamé, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

    Pascal V. Houenou

  8. Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Calavi, Benin

    Benjamin Fayomi

  9. National Polytechnic Higher School, Yaoundé, Cameroon

    Emmanuel Ngnikam

  10. Institut Tropical et de Santé Publique Suisse (SwissTPH) et Université de Bâle, Basel, Switzerland

    Gueladio Cissé

  11. School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Jerry Spiegel

  12. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center, and Centre de Recherché Fernand-Seguin, 5415 Boul. de l’Assomption, Montreal, QC, H1T 2M4, Canada

    Edouard Kouassi

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Koné, B., Feagan, M., Houenou, Y.A. et al. Facilitating the Relationship Between Researchers and Policy-Makers: Experiences from Three Ecohealth Projects in West and Central Africa. EcoHealth 8, 413–417 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-012-0740-3

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