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.

Waypoint Research Institute 3rd Annual Conference

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Knowledge Translation in Mental Health and Addictions June 17th to 19th, 2015 Call for Abstracts Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 15th, 2015 Keynote Speakers: Melanie Barwick, PhD (CPsych), SickKids John N. Lavis, MD, PhD, McMaster University Themes: We will be accepting abstracts that fall into two themes: Theory and Methods Practice and Application in Mental …

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Knowledge Translation and Strategic Communications: Unpacking Differences and Similarities for Scholarly and Research Communication

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We’ve just published an article looking at the differences and similarities between KT and communications!  This is often a hot topic. We hope you enjoy the piece! http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/viewFile/175/344 Knowledge Translation and Strategic Communications: Unpacking Differences and Similarities for Scholarly and Research Communications Melanie Barwick* The Hospital for Sick Children David Phipps & Michael Johnny York …

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NEW RESOURCE for IMPLEMENTATION OF EVIDENCE

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Our research team has just completed 5 new video clips on Implementation on my YouTube Channel found here; https://www.youtube.com/user/MelanieBarwick/videos These resources were developed from our research on the implementation of evidence-based practices in child and youth mental health (and schools), funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Each video clip captures high level …

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2 Knowledge Broker Positions – Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health

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The Knowledge Broker is a provincial resource to assist in building and enhancing the capacity of agencies across Ontario to strengthen care and improve mental health outcomes.  The knowledge broker will have content expertise in at least two of the following three areas: 1) implementation science, 2) knowledge exchange/translation/mobilization, or 3) evaluation/outcomes measurement. The knowledge …

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University of Washington Postdoctoral Fellowship in School Mental Health and Implementation Science

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University of Washington Postdoctoral Fellowship in School Mental Health and Implementation Science The University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine (SoM; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences), in partnership with the College of Education (CoE), is accepting applications for a one-year senior fellowship – with the expectation of renewal for a second year – in …

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