Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation

This proposal is to cover the costs of convening a multi-stakeholder, 1.75 day workshop at Mount Royal University in Calgary that will bring together Canadian global health researchers, Canadian funders (e.g. CIHR, IDRC, CIDA, and GHRI), Canadian foundations, and experts in knowledge translation from Canada and from one low- and middle-income Country. This workshop will first discuss an overview of various KT activities, approaches and projects, followed by the development of evaluation criteria to assess what works in knowledge translation. What, for instance, marks a successful knowledge translation approach? What have Canada and Canadians learned from their extensive experience in the field? These criteria and subsequent analysis will lead into a position paper to be published in a medical journal with a focus on global health research. A collaborative working group of participating researchers and knowledge-users will then develop a full proposal for a Report Card on Canadian knowledge translation activities in global health research. Using the criteria and breadth of examples discussed at the workshop, the Report Card will focus on the influence and impacts of knowledge translation activities of the Canadian global health research community, highlighting good or emerging practices. Such a Report Card will provide a means of understanding and analyzing the many different knowledge translation approaches done by or supported by Canadians in global health research. Its intent is to guide future investments in knowledge translation and encourage greater harmonization among Canadian actors in global health research.