Knowledge transfer and exchange : Vancouver KTE meeting report

The resulting discussions yielded common themes that reinforced the messages of the day’s presentations— about the importance of knowing the audience and the context for knowledge transfer and exchange, and always keeping in mind the ultimate objective of achieving positive health outcomes. [...] Partnership was the theme of the afternoon with the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact describing the power of non-governmental organizations to influence practice— specifically by linking evidence to action via programs and advocacy—and the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools speaking to practitioners’ need for real-world solutions they can adopt and use easily. [...] The Public Health Agency of Canada’s Centre for Chronic Disease Preventions and Control described the steps involved in becoming a knowledge broker; the School of Public Health at the University of Toronto reflected on the fact that universities have many of the resources needed to research and implement KTE but lack the mandates and reward systems to do such work; the Canadian Cancer Society Rese [...] Identifying success factors Context is king Jointly addressing the public health dimension of moving from research to action, the Canadian Cancer Society’s Sylvie SESSION Poissant and Marie-Claude Pelletier of the Group for Moving from Research to Action in Promotion of Prevention (GP2S) stressed the critical Public Health: Practice and Policy— importance of tailoring interventions to suit the con [...] Health, Yellowknife Health/Social Services Authority This aligns with research that shows innovation uptake is influenced by four main factors: 1) the need for end users to see the benefit of the innovation to their own clinical work; 2) the compatibility of the innovation with the practitioner’s beliefs, values and needs; 3) the relative ease of adoption; and 4) availability of the innovation for