Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation

This grant application is submitted to STREAM 1 of the MPD Grant for KT Events (KT Science and Integrated KT) he ACHIEVE Summer Institute on Power, Politics, and Knowledge Translation will be a 4-day invitational forum to: 1) Deepen the foundations of KT science to accommodate analyses of power and intersectoral decisions that affect the social determinants of health; (2) Expand the current repertoire of KT strategies and KT evaluation criteria in light of intersectoral complexity; (3) Promote an interprofessional Community of KT Practice to advance evidence-based action for health equity; and (4) Strengthen integrated KT projects via expert consultation. To increase research use for health equity policy, and to make the urgently-needed link between population health interventions research and on-the-ground improvements, requires robust conceptual and empirical frameworks to: (i) explain intergovernmental decision-making, (ii) document and evaluate power/knowledge relations that affect population health, and (iii) imagine and test novel opportunities for academic research to contribute to social change. The ACHIEVE Summer Institute on Politics, Power and KT will contribute in building these new frameworks.