Grant: Operating Grant: Knowledge to Action

The increasing prevalence and severity of environmental health risks on Canadian children, particularly those from low-income families, is a national concern that requires more integrated approaches to research, policy, and community action. Our team is a partnership of the Canadian Network on Environment, Health, and Social Equity and the Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment. We plan to develop a national knowledge translation training program for emerging research, policy, and community leaders in children's environmental health. Using our national network of experts in research, policy, and community advocacy, we will deliver a curriculum that is designed to foster lifelong collaborations among early-career Canadian academic, policy, and community leaders whose organizational roles and career goals intersect with priority children's environmental health issues in Canada. The training program will be delivered in a combination of face-to-face and web-enabled formats. A five-day summer short course will focus on discussions about priority environmental health issues, on-the-ground environmental health experiences, interdisciplinary approaches to research, and community-driven knowledge translation. A 40-hour web-based collaborative project will enable program participants to apply their new skills in a real-world case study that assists their respective organizations to more effectively mobilize knowledge into concrete action. Program processes and outcomes will be evaluated to identify best practices in knowledge translation capacity building in environmental health.