Grant: Team Grant: Impact of Gender on Knowledge Translation Interventions

Participatory approaches which integrate knowledge users from the beginning and throughout research (integrated knowledge transfer, or iKT) have been shown to garner better results in terms of uptake of knowledge and health outcomes. When this participatory approach also includes specific attention to sex and gender (s/g) it can further improve relevance and results, but runs certain risks, such as stereotyping. This proposal pulls together a well seasoned team, with experience in participatory research on sex and gender going back to the 70s, and emerging scholars of environmental and occupational health. Studies and iKT projects conducted by team members include subjects such as seasonal workers' health, work-family interface, occupational health & safety training, and influences of sex and gender on environmental effects in the immune system. The goal of the project is to closely examine past and current research with an aim to producing reproducible strategies for best practices in the integration of sex and gender in iKT. We will undertake an analysis and evaluation, in collaboration with our partners, of the mechanisms underlying successful partnerships, obstacles to the uptake of research results for gender and health, and training approaches. The results will improve researchers' ability to successfully include sex and gender considerations in their KT projects, with demonstrable improvements on personal and public health ensuing.