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How do you translate academic research into policy that actually saves lives , across 50 countries, through political upheaval, and during a global pandemic? Public health scholar Martin McKee reveals why the gap between evidence and policy is not an information problem but a collaboration problem. Subscribe for more episodes on how real-world collaboration works. C. Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has spent over 30 years building collaborative infrastructure between researchers and policymakers across Europe. His creation of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies , a partnership linking universities, the WHO, the World Bank, the European Commission, and multiple national governments , provides a masterclass in how to make knowledge useful to power. The conv ...