Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Healthcare providers, researchers, criminologists, sociologists, community groups, injury prevention organizations, advocacy groups, and victims of firearm violence will gather for a series of virtual meetings in which we will define a Canadian research agenda that focuses on the prevention of violent firearm-related injury and death as well as understand the needs of survivors of firearm violence and their communities. We propose to hold three virtual meetings, with each meeting building on the content of the previous one. These meetings will be moderated by a certified professional facilitator who is not a member of the study team. Meeting # 1 - Setting the Stage: The participants will: 1) discuss the current needs and gaps in this field of research and 2) identify opportunities. Needs, gaps, and opportunities will be collated and shared with all study participants prior to the next meeting. Meeting #2 - Ranking of Priorities. Participants will rank the research opportunities identified in the first meeting into top priority research areas. Participants will be divided into breakout rooms to foster additional multidisciplinary discussions. In each breakout room, the participants will agree on their top three priorities based on need and feasibility. Each small group will then present their top three areas along with a rationale for their choices to the full group. Low feasibility high need projects will also be discussed. Meeting # 3 - Develop a plan to support how top research priorities may be operationalized. Will discuss data sources and methodological approaches, strategies to mitigate limitations, knowledge translation strategies, and potential impact. These meetings will be the starting point for the development of The Pan-Canadian research collaborative for firearm violence prevention and will act as a catalyst for CIHR project grants that address the top research priority areas identified for the prevention of firearm injuries in Canada.