Understanding challenges in the existing research environment will enable better-informed activities and stronger research networks that address local priorities. We characterised the MNCH research ecosystem across multiple dimensions, offering actionable opportunities to strengthen research capacities, infrastructure, and innovation design and evaluation through advocacy, organisational and system strengthening efforts, curricula development, and the implementation of principles to guide partnerships and agenda-setting for a variety of stakeholders. Future efforts should prioritise fostering a culture of evidence, collaborative prioritisation of research between policymakers and researchers, and sustained commitment to scaling evidence-based practices to advance MNCH outcomes.
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