BACKGROUND To date, efforts to measure impact have largely focused on health research in high-income countries, reflecting where the majority of health research funding is spent. Nevertheless, there is a growing body of health and medical research being undertaken in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), supported by both development aid and established research funders. The Framework to Assess the Impact of Translational health research (FAIT) combines three approaches to measuring research impact (Payback, economic assessment and case study narrative). Its aim is to strengthen the focus on translation and impact measurement in health research. FAIT has been used by several Australian research initiatives; however, it has not been used in LMICs. Our aim was to apply FAIT in an LMIC context and evaluate its utility. METHODS We retrospectively applied all three FAIT methods to two LMIC studies using available data, supplemented with group discussion and further economic analyses. Results were presented in a scorecard format. RESULTS FAIT helped clarify pathways of impact for the projects and provided new knowledge on areas of impact in several domains, including capacity-building for research, policy development and economic impact. However, there were constraints, particularly associated with calculating the return on investment in the LMIC context. The case study narrative provided a layperson's summary of the research that helped to explain outcomes and succinctly communicate lessons learnt. CONCLUSION Use of FAIT to assess the impact of LMIC research was both feasible and useful. We make recommendations related to prospective use, identification of metrics to support use of the Payback framework, and simplification of the economic assessment, which may facilitate further application in LMIC environments.

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加强和衡量研究对全球卫生的影响：应用FAIT框架的经验教训。

背景技术迄今为止，衡量影响的努力主要集中在高收入国家的卫生研究上，这反映了大部分卫生研究经费都花在了哪里。尽管如此，在发展援助和成熟的研究资助者的支持下，中低收入国家（LMIC）正在开展越来越多的健康和医学研究。评估转化健康研究的框架（FAIT）结合了三种评估研究影响的方法（投资回收，经济评估和案例研究叙述）。其目的是加强对健康研究中翻译和影响度量的关注。FAIT已被澳大利亚的一些研究计划所采用。但是，它尚未在LMIC中使用。我们的目标是在LMIC环境中应用FAIT并评估其效用。方法我们回顾性地将所有三种FAIT方法应用到两个LMIC研究中，利用可获得的数据，并辅以小组讨论和进一步的经济分析。结果以记分卡格式显示。结果FAIT帮助阐明了项目的影响途径，并提供了有关多个领域影响领域的新知识，包括研究能力建设，政策制定和经济影响。但是，存在一些限制，特别是与在LMIC环境中计算投资回报率有关。案例研究叙述提供了该研究的非专业人士摘要，有助于解释结果并简洁地交流所汲取的教训。结论利用FAIT评估LMIC研究的影响既可行又有用。我们提出与预期用途相关的建议，