Health research generates an always growing body of scientific publications. However this
scientific production is not systematically integrated into public health. Both researchers and
policy makers have constraints that do not naturally facilitate exchanges and knowledge
translation (KT) from research into health policy. This thesis focuses on the gap between
research and health policy, and the determinants of KT in Cambodia. It includes a literature
review on KT issues and on modeling tools, a case study that analyzes the barriers and
facilitating factors encountered during a KT intervention, a study of the health research
production in Cambodia, a study of the uptake of research findings during health policy
making in Cambodia and the integrative analysis of KT determinants identified through
various research projects in Cambodia.