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DrMatthewHarris

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7452m.harris

 
 
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Reynolds BuildingCharing Cross Campus

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@article{Harris:2015:10.1186/s12992-015-0130-z,
author = {Harris, MJ and Weisberger, E and Silver, D and Macinko, J},
doi = {10.1186/s12992-015-0130-z},
journal = {Globalization and Health},
title = {‘They hear “Africa” and they think that there can’t be any good services’ – perceived context in cross-national learning: a qualitative study of the barriers to Reverse Innovation.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-015-0130-z},
volume = {11},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - BackgroundCountry-of-origin of a product can negatively influence its rating, particularly if the product is from a low-income country. It follows that how non-traditional sources of innovation, such as low-income countries, are perceived is likely to be an important part of a diffusion process, particularly given the strong social and cognitive boundaries associated with the healthcare professions.MethodsBetween September and December 2014, we conducted eleven in-depth face-to-face or telephone interviews with key informants from innovation, health and social policy circles, experts in international comparative policy research and leaders in Reverse Innovation in the United States. Interviews were open-ended with guiding probes into the barriers and enablers to Reverse Innovation in the US context, specifically also to understand whether, in their experience translating or attempting to translate innovations from low-income contexts into the US, the source of the innovation matters in the adopter context. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed thematically using the process of constant comparison.ResultsOur findings show that innovations from low-income countries tend to be discounted early on because of prior assumptions about the potential for these contexts to offer solutions to healthcare problems in the US. Judgments are made about the similarity of low-income contexts with the US, even though this is based oftentimes on flimsy perceptions only. Mixing levels of analysis, local and national, leads to country-level stereotyping and missed opportunities to learn from low-income countries.ConclusionsOur research highlights that prior expectations, invoked by the Low-income country cue, are interfering with a transparent and objective learning process. There may be merit in adopting some techniques from the cognitive psychology and marketing literatures to understand better the relative importance of source in healthcare research and innovation diffusi
AU  - Harris,MJ
AU  - Weisberger,E
AU  - Silver,D
AU  - Macinko,J
DO  - 10.1186/s12992-015-0130-z
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 1744-8603
TI  - ‘They hear “Africa” and they think that there can’t be any good services’ – perceived context in cross-national learning: a qualitative study of the barriers to Reverse Innovation.
T2  - Globalization and Health
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-015-0130-z
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/27751
VL  - 11
ER  -
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