Knowledge Exchange is Essential to Contraceptive Technology Innovation: Findings from the CTI Exchange Co-Creation Process [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
The field of contraceptive research and development (R&D) has not historically benefitted from a strong or coordinated knowledge exchange effort, due in part to the fact that it has no base in any single academic field of study. A number of funders, platforms, and research and advocacy organizat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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F1000 Research Ltd
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Gates Open Research |
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| Online Access: | https://gatesopenresearch.org/articles/9-47/v1 |
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| Summary: | The field of contraceptive research and development (R&D) has not historically benefitted from a strong or coordinated knowledge exchange effort, due in part to the fact that it has no base in any single academic field of study. A number of funders, platforms, and research and advocacy organizations play a role in knowledge promotion and coordination, but these efforts are limited. The Contraceptive Technology Innovation (CTI) Exchange is one such platform that recently embarked on a co-creation process to improve knowledge exchange for the contraceptive R&D field as a whole and to inform its own redesign and relaunch efforts. This co-creation process, informed by design thinking principles, collected information and ideas from 55 participants from 35 organizations and 11 countries and identified three significant knowledge exchange needs in the contraceptive R&D community: 1) credible, current, and creative field-specific content, 2) curated, aggregated, and easy-to-use resources, and 3) audience-driven knowledge exchange. These findings will be used to simplify and refocus the CTI Exchange to better meet the needs of contraceptive researchers and developers at every career stage, but these findings also have field-wide applicability. We are calling for a swell of knowledge exchange efforts in the field of contraceptive R&D to prompt and promote health and well-being worldwide. We encourage contraceptive innovators and knowledge exchange specialists to make use of and contribute to the CTI Exchange and apply the findings outlined here to shape their own work. |
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| ISSN: | 2572-4754 |