title: "Mind the Gap": Researchers Ignore Politics at Their Own Risk.
abstract: No matter how distasteful researchers find policy politics, effective policy requires that they engage. Drawing on her career bridging the research/politics gap in health care policy, the author makes a case for why and how researchers can do just that.
authors.affiliation: Georgetown University.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Feder
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011634:Public Health; D012108:Research Personnel
keywords: policy politics; research translation