Use social media to strengthen health systems

Health scientists in developing countries can use social media to tackle research priorities, argue Alexander E. T. Finlayson and colleagues.

Building research capacity in developing countries is, perhaps appropriately, a relatively new aim for efforts to improve health systems and is not a prominent building block in the WHO framework for health systems strengthening.

Nonetheless, its importance is increasingly recognised by the WHO and organisations such as our own, MedicineAfrica. [1]