Pamela Fuselli

Pamela Fuselli, MSc is the Vice President of Knowledge Translation & Stakeholder Relations at Parachute. Prior to this, she was the Executive Director at Safe Kids Canada and one of the four leaders that led and co-founded the Injury Alliance that, through a process of national consultation and visioning, created a plan to move from collaboration to amalgamation of operations of the four NGOs, resulting in the formation of Parachute. Pamela received her BSC in Psychology from the University of Toronto in 1992, her BHA (2002) from Ryerson University and MSc (2010) in Creativity and Change Leadership from the State University of New York College at Buffalo. In her current position, Pamela accepted the challenge of leading Parachute in translating evidence to action through strong relationships with key stakeholders and organizations across Canada. In the 20 years she has worked in the health care/injury prevention sector, Pamela has focused on knowledge mobilization resulting in behaviour change, the impact of good public policy and the importance of collaboration to further the impact on social change. Pamela is responsible for publications including The Cost of Injury in Canada Report (2015) and the Canadian Injury Prevention Resource the first such resource in Canada. She is a member the Canadian Collaborative Centres for Injury Prevention, the Canadian Paediatric Society’s Injury Prevention Committee, the Trauma Association of Canada’s Injury Prevention Working Group, a number of Canadian Standards Association’s Technical Committees, Sport Canada’s Federal/ Provincial/Territorial Working Group on Concussions, Canadian Concussion Collaborative, Transport Canada’s Vulnerable Road User Countermeasures Advisory Committee, Seniors Falls Prevention Month Steering Committee and is the Chief Editor the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals Safety Network Newsletter. Pamela is a Board member of the Canadian Drowning Prevention Coalition, Secretariat for the Canadian Surveillance System on Poison Information and Secretariat for the Canadian Collaborating Centres on Injury Prevention. Pamela’s role in research ranges from co-principle investigator to KT advisor on research grants. Examples include a CIHR-funded multi-year, five city project on the impact of the built environment on children’s active transportation and a live pilot project to develop a peer to peer concussion model for high school students. In addition, Pamela is a keynote and plenary speaker and presenter at conferences and workshops and a media spokesperson on a wide range of injury prevention topics, public policy issues and knowledge mobilization. Twitter: @PFuselli LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-fuselli-99400514/ Web: www.parachutecanada.org YouTube: www.youtube.com/ParachuteCanada