Melanie Barwick

Melanie Barwick, Ph.D., C.Psych, is the Canada Research Chair in Implementation Science and Practice (Tier 1) and a Senior Scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program of the SickKids Research Institute and the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health. As the Scientific Director of the Knowledge Translation Program at the SickKids’ Learning Institute, she also leads professional and resource development in dissemination and implementation research and practice. At the University of Toronto, she is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, and the Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation). She teaches at the University of Toronto’s Doctorate in Public Health and IHPME. Her community work includes chairing the Governing Board for Children’s Mental Health Ontario and being on the Editorial Board for the journal Implementation Research and Practice. An internationally recognized expert in dissemination and implementation research and practice, her health services research program spans many areas of health to improve the implementation of evidence into practice and broaden its reach to support decision-making, policy, knowledge, awareness, health, and well-being. She has considerable practical experience in implementation. Her current research, funded by CIHR, is evaluating a first-in-kind digital tool, The Implementation Playbook©, to facilitate the implementation of innovations in service settings. The paper prototype, The Implementation Roadmap©, is also available to support implementation planning. She provides professional development in dissemination and implementation practice internationally through the Specialist Knowledge Translation Training™ (SKTT, for researchers and KT practitioners), the Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate™ (KTPC, for KT practitioners), and Planning for Implementation Practice™(PIP). The KTPC is recognized as a Leading Practice by Accreditation Canada and has over 600 graduates worldwide. Since 2004, SickKids has licensed SKTT training to the Research Impact Academy (AUS) and has over 3,800 learners internationally. She is the developer of several tools that support dissemination and implementation.

SPHERU Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

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Rural and Northern Seniors Health

The Position

We are now accepting applications for a tw year postdoctoral fellowship position with the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit at its University of Saskatchewan location in Saskatoon. SPHERU’s mission is the promotion of health equity by understanding and addressing population health disparities through policy-relevant and engaged research. We fulfill this mission by actively involving communities, non-governmental organizations, and policy and decision-makers in both the research enterprise itself, and in the communication of research results.

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Please RSVP for January 7th Social Network Talk!

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You are invited to the following event: Using Social Network Analysis to Evaluate Communities of Practice: A Methodological Journey Date: Friday, January 07, 2011 from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET) Location: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 33 Russell Street Eli Lilly Centre, Room 2022 Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1 Canada     Can you …

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PhD Studentship within the School of Social & Political Sciences/Centre for Population & Health Sciences University of Glasgow

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*’Testing the applicability of realist synthesis in the context of the Commonwealth Games’*

PhD Studentship within the School of Social & Political Sciences/Centre for Population & Health Sciences University of Glasgow – funded by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health

 The studentship will pay home fees and an annual stipend of £13,590 to cover living costs and all expenses associated with conducting the PhD.

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KM Capacity Building Director – Alberta Health Services

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Position: Capacity Building Director
Posting #: 130431
Classification Title: Management and Business Professional
Type: Regular Full Time
City/Town: Calgary
Location: Centre 15 – At
Unit/Dept: (CORP)CAPACITY BUILDING ADMIN
Union: Exempt
FTE: 1.00

Salary/Benefits: Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience

Responsibilities/Duties:

The Director, Knowledge Management Capacity Building is a leadership role in the Quality & Service Improvement Portfolio and reports directly to the Executive Director, Knowledge Management (KM). This position is responsible and accountable for leading an operational team in the planning, delivery and evaluation of knowledge management capacity building initiatives to support operational programs and services in the delivery of the vision, mission and business plans of Alberta Health Services.

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NEW POSITIONS: OPPORTUNITIES IN IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE

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The National Implementation Research Network at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is seeking to fill two new full-time positions.  Please pass this notice on to your network of colleagues.  One position is a full-time Research and Evaluation position.  This person will play a lead role in …

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KT Supplement Funding Opportunity – CIHR

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A core component of CIHR‘s mandate is to translate knowledge into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened health care system. The Knowledge Translation (KT) Branch, through its KT Supplement Funding Opportunity, provides supplemental funding to enable widespread dissemination and implementation of research findings to communities beyond the traditional scientific community so as to accelerate the capture of the benefits of health research. The funding opportunity requires the use of active KT strategies and interventions supplementary to publication in peer reviewed journals. It is not intended to cover typical KT costs budgeted for at the time of submission of the original grant (eg. publication costs and open access fees for anticipated publications, conference fees, etc).

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Dumbing down the audience

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Re-posted from the Overseas Development Initiative Blog

‘Dumbing down’ the audience
Monday, July 05, 2010 2:50 PM by Enrique Mendizabal

Evidence-informed policies are central to ODI’s mission to link together high quality applied research with practical policy advice. That is why the Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) Programme works to understand better the relationship between research, policy and practice and to figure out how think tanks and other similar organisations can ensure strong links between them. To achieve this in developing countries we have worked from multiple angles. On the one hand, we are helping researchers to com­municate their research and engage with policy processes – an action we have further supported by interacting with donor agencies to im­prove the way they fund and support researchers. On the other hand, we have been working with progressive policy-makers in developing countries to improve their ability to bring evidence to bear in policy discussions.

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Manager, Knowledge Exchange Centre, Mental Health Commission of Canada

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Job Title: Manager, Knowledge Exchange Centre
Reports To: Director, Knowledge Exchange Centre

Location: Ottawa or Calgary

 ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND

 The Mental Health Commission of Canada is a national non‐profit organization created with funding assistance from the Government of Canada. The mission is to promote mental health in Canada, to change the attitudes of Canadians toward mental health problems and mental illness and to work  with stakeholders to improve mental health services and supports. The Commission is a multi‐site, multi-initiative, multi‐level organization that has operations across Canada.

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