In what could come as a big boost to control of hypertension in rural areas of the country, a new study has provided fresh evidence that a low-cost education and monitoring intervention delivered by community health workers is effective in controlling blood pressure and is potentially scalable in resource-poor settings in India and globally.

The Malang district government in Indonesia has received the best health services innovation award 2019 from the Indonesian Ministry of Health.

There is a need to embed evidence generation processes into the policy cycle and leverage increased use of evaluation at political levels. This involves building the capacity of researchers to convert information into data and knowledge that can be used and increasing their ability to synthesise various sources of knowledge into policy-usable matters.