When the messenger is more important than the message: an experimental study of evidence use in francophone Africa

Quand le messager est plus important que le message: étude expérimentale en Afrique francophone sur l’utilisation des connaissances

Amandine Fillol, Esther Mcsween-Cadieux, Bruno Ventelou, Marie-Pier Larose, Ulrich Boris Nguemdjo Kanguem, Kadidiatou Kadio, Christian Dagenais and Valéry Ridde ()
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Amandine Fillol: CEPED - UMR_D 196 - Centre population et développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - UPCité - Université Paris Cité, ESPUM - Département de médecine sociale et préventive [ESPUM-Montréal] - UdeM - Université de Montréal
Esther Mcsween-Cadieux: UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke
Marie-Pier Larose: University of Turku
Ulrich Boris Nguemdjo Kanguem: AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses Tropicales Emergentes - URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - IFR48 - INSB-CNRS - Institut des sciences biologiques - CNRS Biologie - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IRD [Sénégal] - Institut de recherche pour le développement
Kadidiatou Kadio: IRSS - Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé [Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso] - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD [Burkina Faso] - Institut de recherche pour le développement
Christian Dagenais: UdeM - Université de Montréal
Valéry Ridde: CEPED - UMR_D 196 - Centre population et développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - UPCité - Université Paris Cité

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Abstract: Background: Epistemic injustices are increasingly decried in global health. This study aims to investigate whether the source of knowledge influences the perception of that knowledge and the willingness to use it in francophone African health policy-making context. Methods: The study followed a randomized experimental design in which participants were randomly assigned to one of seven policy briefs that were designed with the same scientific content but with different organizations presented as authors. Each organization was representative of financial, scientific or moral authority. For each type of authority, two organizations were proposed: one North American or European, and the other African. Results: The initial models showed that there was no significant association between the type of authority or the location of the authoring organization and the two outcomes (perceived quality and reported instrumental use). Stratified analyses highlighted that policy briefs signed by the African donor organization (financial authority) were perceived to be of higher quality than policy briefs signed by the North American/European donor organization. For both perceived quality and reported instrumental use, these analyses found that policy briefs signed by the African university (scientific authority) were associated with lower scores than policy briefs signed by the North American/European university. Conclusions: The results confirm the significant influence of sources on perceived global health knowledge and the intersectionality of sources of influence. This analysis allows us to learn more about organizations in global health leadership, and to reflect on the implications for knowledge translation practices.

Keywords: Global health; Policy briefs; Structural drivers; Power; Santé mondiale; Notes de politiques; Déterminants structurels; COVID-19; Pouvoir (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-12
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Published in Health Research Policy and Systems, 2022, 20 (1), pp.57. ⟨10.1186/s12961-022-00854-x⟩

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