Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

The Canadian Institutes for Health Research recently funded 4 postdoctoral Health System Impact Fellows to complete autism-related projects. In this panel, these trainees will share learnings from their fellowship experience that are relevant to a national autism strategy. They will also introduce the idea of the Learning Health System, and discuss its potential to develop more responsive, improvement-oriented health and social systems. This session will include questions for Summit participants to engage with and respond to. My specific talk will illustrate and provide tools to build a learning health system in autism. I will share an evaluation framework for an autism primary care community clinic that using evidence-informed tools and best practices contextualized to the Canadian health care setting. Other examples from working with community organizations to build research capacity and with policy makers will be used to highlight the benefits and limits of knowledge translation.