Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: PHSI

The proposed funding will facilitate the building and development of partnerships between the emerging researcher-decision maker team and communities through a series of focused meetings. In each meeting, decision makers will collaborate with the researchers to confirm the direction of the research agenda and plan. The researcher-decision maker team will define the scope of evidence needed to support health system change in a rural and northern health authority. The emerging team will discuss and confirm research questions, methodologies, and a community-based research plan and will develop a full PHSI application for submission in 2011. The opportunities to convene and have focused discussions with researchers, decision-makers, physicians and communities will also inform future research and knowledge translation activities within Northern BC and with other rural and northern health authorities across Canada.