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Description This study aimed to understand how policy-makers and researchers in Australia experience collaboration and the impediments and enablers they encounter. An online survey was completed by 170 participants: 58% policy actors and 42% researchers. Respondents reported the primary purpose for collaboration was evidence-informed policy-making.
Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis has highlighted that policy action and collaborative decision making can occur rapidly across sectoral boundaries1 while reinforcing the need for evidence-informed policy.
Objectives and importance of study: For public policy to respond effectively to social, economic, and health challenges, there is an urgent need for research-policy collaboration to advance evidence-informed policy. Many organisations seek to promote these engagement activities, but little is known about how this is experienced by researchers and policy actors.
Community-based initiatives (CBIs) that build capacity and promote healthy environments hold promise for preventing obesity and non-communicable disease, however their characteristics remain poorly understood and lessons are learned in isolation. This limits understanding of likely effectiveness of CBIs; the potential for actively supporting practice; and the translation of community-based knowledge into policy.
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