Social Science & Medicine 136-137 (2015) 147-155.

Highlights
• There is a lack of action-oriented approaches to guide use of research in policy.
• Our framework provides a pragmatic basis to develop and test interventions.
• It can identify the intervention strategies that are most likely to be effective.
• It has the potential to guide knowledge development and practical decisions.
• The framework draws on and extends recent theories on knowledge exchange.