Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development, and environment

Date
2019-08-01Author
Tallis, Heather
Kreis, Katharine
Olander, Lydia P.
Ringler, Claudia
Ameyaw, David
Borsuk, Mark E.
Fletschner, Diana
Game, Edward
Gilligan, Daniel O.
Jeuland, Marc
Kennedy, Gina
Masuda, Yuta J.
Mehta, Sumi
Miller, Nicholas
Parker, Megan
Pollino, Carmel
Rajaratnam, Julie
Wilkie, David
Zhang, Wei
Ahmed, Selena
Ajayi, Oluyede C.
Alderman, Harold
Arhonditsis, George
Azevedo, Ines
Badola, Ruchi
Bailis, Rob
Balvanera, Patricia
Barbour, Emily
Bardini, Mark
Barton, David N.
Baumgartner, Jill
Benton, Tim G.
Bobrow, Emily
Bossio, Deborah
Bostrom, Ann
Braimoh, Ademola
Brondizio, Eduardo
Brown, Joe
Bryant, Benjamin P.
Calder, Ryan S. D.
Chaplin-Kramer, Becky
Cullen, Alison
DeMello, Nicole
Dickinson, Katherine L.
Ebi, Kristie L.
Eves, Heather E.
Fanzo, Jessica
Ferraro, Paul J.
Fisher, Brendan
Frongillo, Edward A.
Galford, Gillian
Garrity, Dennis
Gatere, Lydiah
Grieshop, Andrew P.
Grigg, Nicola J.
Groves, Craig
Gugerty, Mary Kay
Hamm, Michael
Hou, Xiaoyue
Huang, Cindy
Imhoff, Marc
Jack, Darby
Jones, Andrew D.
Kelsey, Rodd
Kothari, Monica
Kumar, Ritesh
Lachat, Carl
Larsen, Ashley E.
Lawrence, Mark
DeClerck, Fabrice
Levin, Phillip S.
Mabaya, Edward
Gibson, Jacqueline MacDonald
McDonald, Robert
Mace, Georgina
Maertens, Ricardo
Mangale, Dorothy
Martino, Robin
Mason, Sara A.
Mehta, Lyla
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth
Merz, Barbara
Msangi, Siwa
Murray, Grant
Murray, Kris A.
Naude, Celeste E.
Newlands, Nathaniel K.
Nkonya, Ephraim
Peterman, Amber
Petruney, Tricia
Possingham, Hugh
Puri, Jyotsna
Remans, Roseline
Remlinger, Lisa
Ricketts, Taylor H.
Reta, Bedilu
Robinson, Brian E.
Roe, Dilys
Rosenthal, Joshua
Shen, Guofeng
Shindell, Drew
Stewart-Koster, Ben
Sunderland, Terry
Sutherland, William J.
Tewksbury, Joshua
Wasser, Heather
Wear, Stephanie
Webb, Chris
Whittington, Dale
Wilkerson, Marit
Wittmer, Heidi
Wood, Benjamin DK K.
Wood, Stephen
Wu, Joyce
Yadama, Gautam
Zobrist, Stephanie
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Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are needed to support Sustainable Development Goal advances and similar agendas. The Bridge Collaborative, an emergent research-practice collaboration, presents principles and recommendations that help harmonize methods for evidence generation and use. Recommendations were generated in the context of designing and evaluating evidence of impact for interventions related to five global challenges (stabilizing the global climate, making food production sustainable, decreasing air pollution and respiratory disease, improving sanitation and water security, and solving hunger and malnutrition) and serve as a starting point for further iteration and testing in a broader set of contexts and disciplines. We adopted six principles and emphasize three methodological recommendations: (1) creation of compatible results chains, (2) consideration of all relevant types of evidence, and (3) evaluation of strength of evidence using a unified rubric. We provide detailed suggestions for how these recommendations can be applied in practice, streamlining efforts to apply multi-objective approaches and/or synthesize evidence in multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary teams. These recommendations advance the necessary process of reconciling existing evidence standards in health, development, and environment, and initiate a common basis for integrated evidence generation and use in research, practice, and policy design.