Policy decision-makers could:	Researchers could:
Actively interact with health researchers; communicate and suggest research areas for policy implementation.	Reach out to policy-makers and engage them early on in the question-forming process.
Promote research investments linked to specific policies in development.	Get involved in policy-making processes; communicate with policy-makers better and more frequently; demonstrate the utility of research results.
Identify short-, mid- and long-term policy strategies and identify points where evidence is missing and can contribute.	Ask policy-makers for questions that need to be answered and problems that they are facing that need to be solved.
Have a board or committee that includes policy-makers as well as researchers to develop and/or approve government-funded or donor-funded research that is relevant to policy and will be used by policy-makers.