{"id":3075,"date":"2016-10-24T11:49:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T10:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2016-10-24T11:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T10:49:41","slug":"twende-knowledge-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/twende-knowledge-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"TWENDE Knowledge Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TWENDE Knowledge Translation (KT) training recently began at the School of Medicine University of St. Andrews.\u00a0 Our theme is, \u2018<strong>To be useful to society, research knowledge must be translated into policy and practice\u2019<\/strong>. \u00a0Dr. Ewan Chirnside of the University of St. Andrews is leading the training and we are excited to have KT representatives from \u00a0Kenya and Tanzania.\u00a0 We are also happy to be joined by Mrs. Khadija Bah-Wakefield, an anthropologist and former World bank, UN and WHO expat, who was part of the WHO team that responded to the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa.\u00a0 After the first session of KT training, Khadija said, \u2018this is exactly what I want to do, to translate my anthropological research into policy and practice of public health and clinical medicine\u2019.\u00a0 Our representatives from Kenya and Tanzania also said, \u2018we are determined to see knowledge translation become part of the main agenda of our institutions\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TWENDE Knowledge Translation (KT) training recently started at the School of Medicine University of St. Andrews.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[409,917,1133,1187],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-dr-wilber-sabiiti","tag-prof-stephen-gillespie","tag-twende","tag-who"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 06:41:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}