Participatory implementation science to increase the impact of evidence-based cancer prevention and control

It is critical to accelerate the integration of evidence-based programs, practices, and strategies for cancer prevention and control into clinical, community, and public health settings. While it is clear that effective translation of existing knowledge into practice can reduce cancer burden, it is less clear how best to achieve this. This gap is addressed by the rapidly growing field of implementation science. Given that context influences and is influenced by implementation efforts, engaging stakeholders in the co-production of knowledge and solutions offers an opportunity to increase the likelihood that implementation efforts are useful, scalable, and sustainable in real-world settings. We argue that a participatory implementation science approach is critical, as it supports iterative, ongoing engagement between stakeholders and researchers to improve the pathway between research and practice, create system change, and address health disparities and health equity. This article highlights the utility of participatory implementation science for cancer prevention and control research and addresses (a) the spectrum of participatory research approaches that may be of use, (b) benefits of participatory implementation science, an

Knowledge and human development authority in Dubai (KHDA) open data: what do researchers want?

Government open data is a booster for government performance, transparency, and innovation. The purpose of this study to investigate how researchers use Dubai open data on Dubai Pulse platform, Using Dubai open data for Knowledge and Human Development Authority in Dubai (KHDA) shows was not covered by academic researchers. To find the reasons behind that, a systematic review were conducted for all published papers and academic researchs in the period of 2015 until 2019. 68 articles were identified, but only 38 articels passed the including/excluding criteria, and considered within this study. The majority of researchers focus mainly on detailed students’ datasets. on the other hand the published KHDA open dataset provide many usefull datasets but it’s not including detailed students datasets; a gap between the required datasets by researchers and what KHDA open dataset provide is found. Therefore, to bridge the gap and improve researches in educational domain, KHDA needs to provide more students’ details that supports machine-readable format to become useful and usable for researchers

Consensus statement on assessment of waterpipe smoking in epidemiological studies

Numerous epidemiological accounts suggest that waterpipe smoking (aka hookah, shisha, narghile) has become a global phenomenon, especially among youth. The alarming spread of waterpipe and accumulating evidence of its addictive and harmful effects represent a new threat in the global fight to limit tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. In response to waterpipe's alarming trends, major public health and tobacco control organisations have started or are considering systematic collection of data about waterpipe smoking to monitor its trends and assess its harmful effects in different societies. Such plans require coordination and agreement on epidemiological measurement tools that reflect the uniqueness of this tobacco use method, and at the same time allow comparison of waterpipe trends across time and place, and with other tobacco use methods. We started a decade ago our work to develop standardised measures and definitions for the assessment of waterpipe smoking in epidemiological studies. In this communication, we try to expand and update these assessment tools in light of our increased knowledge and understanding of waterpipe use patterns, its context and marketing, as well as the need for evidence-guided policies and regulations to curb its spread. We have assembled for this purpose a group of leading waterpipe researchers worldwide, and worked through an iterative process to develop the suggested instruments and definitions based on what we know currently about the waterpipe epidemic. While the suggested measures are by no means comprehensive, we hope that they can provide the building blocks for standard and comparable surveillance of waterpipe smoking globally