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. 2015 Nov 4;31(5):600–611. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czv107

Table 2.

Characteristics of academic-policymaker relations across Kenyan Schools of Public Health (SPHs)

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Institution No. Full-time faculty respondents Total no. PM mentioned No. unique PMs Network size Prevalence of PM relationsa
Diversity of academic-policymaker relations
No. % Max degreeb Avg degree No. sharedc PMs % shared PMs
MUSOPH 22 43 36 60 16 72 7 1.95 5 14%
SPHUoN 15 34 27 42 12 80 4 2.27 4 15%
GLUK 29 49 27 57 16 55 7 1.69 9 33%
ESPUDEC 24 21 16 39 13 52 3 0.88 4 25%
KEMU 17 17 15 34 7 41 6 1.00 2 13%
KUSPH 17 40 31 48 12 71 7 2.35 5 16%
TOTAL 124 204 Unique PMs across all SPHs: 109 76 61     n/a     n/a

aPrevalence of academic-policymaker relations: absolute no. of faculty connected to ≥1 policymaker; Proportion of same (Col 5/Col 2).

bDegree of academic-policymaker relations: maximum no. of policymaker (PM) contacts mentioned by any one faculty at the SPH; Avg no. of relations (Col 2/Col 1).

cShared academic-policymaker relations: total no. of shared policymaker (PM) contacts in network; Proportion of relations shared (Col 7/Col 3).Bolded entries are rows of cumulative totals so as not to be confused with the rows above.