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When do randomised trial results generalise to the populations that receive the treatment?

Randomisation establishes internal validity within a trial population. Extending the result to a different population requires assumptions that are rarely stated and almost never tested. This asks which characteristics of a trial predict whether its effect estimate survives in routine practice.

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What limits adoption of interventions already known to work?

Several public-health interventions have well-established effect sizes and remain unadopted at scale. The binding constraint is not knowledge. This asks what it is, in enough structural detail to be acted on — and it is here partly because it is exactly the kind of question that attracts little funding relative to its importance.

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