dr. RAJ (Robert) Borst, MSc

Biography

Ever since completing my training as a health scientist and epidemiologist, I have been interested in better understanding and improving the use of knowledge in health policy and practice. Having worked as lecturer and field researcher in epidemiology for some years, I am currently studying how knowledge translation collaboratives sustain and institutionalise, with a special interest in how mundane, or 'everyday', knowledge translation initiatives that work well can be further supported.

Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management

Assistant professor | Health Care Governance (HCG)

Email: borst@eshpm.eur.nl

Work

Robert Borst & Bert de Graaff (2024) - De dubbelzinnigheid van <i>resilience </i>in de zorg op Bonaire, Sint-Eustatius en Saba: eerste onderzoeksresultaten
Robert A.J. Borst, Rik Wehrens, Moustapha Nsangou, Dachi Arikpo, Ekpereonne Esu, Ali Al Metleq, Olivia Hobden, Martin Meremikwu, Pierre Ongolo-Zogo, Roland Bal & Maarten Olivier Kok (2023) - What makes knowledge translation work in practice?: Lessons from a demand-driven and locally led project in Cameroon, Jordan and Nigeria - Health Research Policy and Systems, 21 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12961-023-01083-6 - [link]
Robert Borst (2023) - Mundane knowledge translation: Revealing the work that underlies evidence-informed policy
Robert Borst, Karin Wisse, Bert de Graaff & Roland Bal (2023) - Caring for resilience: A knowledge agenda for health systems research in the Netherlands
Robert Borst, Rik Wehrens & Roland Bal (2023) - “And when will you install the new water pump?”: disconcerted reflections on how to be a ‘good’ Global Health scholar - Globalization and Health, 19 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12992-023-00919-8 - [link]
Robert A.J. Borst, Rik Wehrens & Roland Bal (2023) - The Knowledge Translation Pizza-Dilemma: A Response to Recent Commentaries - International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12 (1) - doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.8296 - [link]
Robert Borst, Rik Wehrens & Roland Bal (2022) - Sustaining Knowledge Translation Practices: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis - International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11 (12), 2793-2804 - doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.6424 - [link]
Kimberley Meijers, Anke van der Kwaak, Ibrahim Aqel, Robert Borst, Françoise Jenniskens, Aryanti Radyowijati, Arnob Chakrabarty, Eric Nzeyimana, Ely Sawitri & Noor Tromp (2022) - Using a Rapid Knowledge Translation Approach for Better Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Bangladesh, Burundi, Indonesia, and Jordan - Global health, science and practice, 10 (2) - doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00461 - [link]
Robert A.J. Borst, Rik Wehrens, Roland Bal & Maarten Olivier Kok (2022) - From sustainability to sustaining work: What do actors do to sustain knowledge translation platforms? - Social Science and Medicine, 296 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114735 - [link]
AL (Annette) Boaz, Robert Borst, Maarten Kok & A O'Shea (2021) - How far does an emphasis on stakeholder engagement and co-production in research present a threat to academic identity and autonomy? A prospective study across five European countries - Research Evaluation, 30 (3), 361-369 - doi: 10.1093/reseval/rvab013 - [link]

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Robert Borst & Bert de Graaff (2024) - Tussen ‘Acts of God’ en risicobeheersing: resilience in de zorg op Bonaire, Sint-Eustatius en Saba (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Robert Borst (2022) - What makes knowledge-to-action processes work? (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Robert Borst, Johanna Kostenzer & Roland Bal (2020) - Global Health is dead, long live global health! (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic