Research Uptake and the Fourth Estate
Future Health Systems
By Shibaji Bose, FHS India Policy Influence and Research Uptake Officer
The media is famously called the fourth estate, after the executive, judiciary, and legislature.
My comprehension from the [ResUp meet][1] was that many who attended considered the media just one of the many channels that would take forward / upward / downward to the proletariat their ‘silver bullet’ research findings. However, from an Indian / South Asian context, there would have been no structural movements or user voices reclaiming their lost territory if they had not piggybacked on the media storm.
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