HEART – Health & Education Advice & Resource Team
HEART – Health & Education Advice & Resource Team
“HEART helps time pressured decision-makers better understand, interpret and apply health, nutrition and education evidence.”
Organization:
a consortium of leading organizations in international development, health, nutrition and education (e.g. LSTM, IDS, FHI 360, funded by UK Aid
Year: started in November 2012
Purpose: Aim to support the use of evidence
Content:
- HEART Helpdesk: research service synthesizing relevant evidence to address specific policy questions. Report includes a brief literature review with summaries and comments from subject experts
- Topic Guides: e.g. on nutrition highlighting the latest body of evidence
- Assignment reports of short-term technical support (e.g. reviews, evaluations)
- Document library: summaries and links to editorially-selected publications on key themes of health, education and nutrition (documents are sourced from academic research, policy papers and global development organizations).