Welcome to KTECOP

The Canadian Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Community of Practice (KTECOP) is a network of KTE practitioners and researchers who share KTE practices and experience, build peer relationships for information exchange and support, build KTE capacity, advance knowledge of KTE effectiveness, and share KTE events, job opportunities and other related KTE activities. More »

Research Coordinator – Knowledge Exchange

July 4, 2012 by Scott Mitchell

Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services is a Community Health Centre that aims to improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable immigrants, refugees, and their communities. We do this by facilitating access to services and addressing systemic inequities. The Centre envisions a future in which diverse individuals, families and communities can achieve health with dignity.

Access Alliance is a recognized leader in community based research on social determinants of newcomer health. Our research team takes a leadership role in generating and using evidence to catalyze progressive policy and service solutions to promote health of newcomer groups in Canada.

We are looking for a dynamic, creative and energetic team player, with strong research knowledge and proven knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) skills to become part of our Research Team as Research Coordinator, Knowledge Exchange. This is a full-time contract position.

Job Opportunity: Associate Manager, Health Professional Education & Knowledge Translation

July 4, 2012July 3, 2012 by Michelle Brown

Company: Heart and Stroke Foundation
Position: Associate Manager, Health Professional Education & Knowledge Translation
Reports to: Manager, Health Professional Education
Department: Research, Advocacy and Health Promotion
Location: Toronto
Status: Part Time (3 days/week), Permanent

Purpose:

Under the direction and guidance of Manager, Health Professional Education (HPE), the Associate Manager, Health Professional Education and Knowledge Translation supervises and coordinates all pre-event, onsite, and post event elements such as the management of critical paths, service providers, deliverables and provide troubleshooting solutions to HPE’s knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) programs including the Heart&Stroke Clinical Update, the Stroke Collaborative, and the Heart&Stroke Hypertension Collaborative, etc.

Job Opportunity: Senior Program Specialist, Health Professional Education & Knowledge Translation

July 4, 2012July 3, 2012 by Michelle Brown

Company: Heart and Stroke Foundation
Position: Sr Program Specialist, Health Professional Education & Knowledge Translation
Reports to: Manager, Health Professional Education
Department: RAHP
Location: Toronto
Status: Full Time, Permanent

Purpose:

This position will bring clinical and program management expertise, as well as knowledge in adult education/ e-learning, to support and enhance the Foundation’s knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) efforts for healthcare professionals.

The Senior Program Specialist will be responsible for content development/program design, maintaining strong partnerships with external and internal stakeholders and the oversight of Health Professional Education KTE deliverables, including Heart and Stroke healthcare professionals web portal (www.heartandstroke.ca/hcp), resources for the healthcare community and KTE programs such as the Heart&Stroke Clinical Update, the Stroke Collaborative, and the Heart&Stroke Hypertension Collaborative.

This position will also assist in the planning and development of future KTE and e-learning initiatives for healthcare professionals.

KT at CIHR

June 29, 2012 by Melanie Barwick

News from Dr. Jane E. Aubin, Vice-President, Research and Knowledge Translation CIHR has recently re-aligned its organizational structure, moving from four to three portfolios: Public, Government and Institute Affairs (PGIA); Resources Planning and Management (RPM); and Research and Knowledge Translation (RKT). In my new role as Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President of the Research and …

Job Opportunity: Regional KE Lead in London

July 4, 2012June 29, 2012 by Heather Bullock

Program Consultant (Regional Knowledge Exchange Lead)

Regional Services, West Region, London

Position Description:

Reporting to the Regional Manager, the Knowledge Exchange Lead will play an important connective role on a local level. You will be an integral member of the EENet team. Reporting to the Regional Manager and taking strategic direction from the Manager of Knowledge Exchange in the Health Systems and Health Equity Research (HSHER) Group, this position will be responsible for a variety of knowledge exchange activities associated with EENet. As the local ‘face’ of EENet you will act as a two-way conduit for information sharing between EENet and local communities. The Regional KE Lead will be specifically charged with building and fostering linkages between community, hospital, university research centres, LHINs, other local and regional planning bodies and other community mental health and addictions stakeholders for knowledge exchange purposes. Your duties and responsibilities also include acting as local connectors of knowledge producers and knowledge users (e.g. planning tables, LHINs, community MH&A programs, hospital MH&A programs, Human Services and Justice Committees, public health bodies, etc); building and fostering relationships with researchers within Universities and Academic Health Science Centres; and enhancing community capacity to engage in research and KE activities and use evidence for decision-making; feeding research activity and promising practices back to EENet’s management and resource centre; developing KE products and organizing KE activities for the region and the broader network; and facilitating access to appropriate and tailored evidence in support of local and regional service collaboratives. You will support a workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork and complies with all applicable and regulatory requirements. The position is located 100 Collip Circle in London and will involve travel within Western Ontario.

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KT Tools: Innovation to Implementation: A Practical Guide to Knowledge Translation in Health Care

June 27, 2012 by Dave Walker

The Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Knowledge Exchange Centre has just released the KT guide “Innovation to Implementation: A Practical Guide to Knowledge Translation in Health Care”. The I2I is a how-to guide for driving change using knowledge translation (KT) activities. It is built around the concept of innovation: products, actions, services or relationships that …

Executive Director (Senior Health Knowledge Network)

October 23, 2012June 27, 2012 by Deirdre Luesby

Program:	Bruyère Research Institute
	Position Type:	Part-Time, 2 days/week until March 31, 2013 with the possibility of extension
	Salary Scale:	We offer flexible work arrangement options and $375 per diem based on a 7.5 hour work day
	Competition Closing Date:	7/4/2012 9:00 AM

The Bruyère Research Institute (BRI) is a Bruyère Continuing Care and University of Ottawa partnership. BRI is seeking an Executive Director (ED) to work with the Seniors Health Knowledge Network (N³) – formerly known as the SHRTN Collaborative. This opportunity will involve a 2 day/week level of effort. The contract will be until March 31, 2013 with possibility of extension pending funding approval for next fiscal year.

Database of KT Tools

June 26, 2012 by Melanie Barwick

Courtesy of Anne Middleton, Senior Policy Analyst, Health Canada A new database of tools is available at the link below. It is possible to add more tools. The database was initially developed from an analysis of tools identified in a survey of international K* practitioners across multiple fields. One of the sectors classified is Health. …

Research: Planning for Impacts

October 28, 2012June 25, 2012 by Megan Schellenberg

Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Michael Smith Laboratories, Lecture Theater (Room 102) University of British Columbia, 2185 East Mall, Vancouver, BC Speakers: Dr Evan Wood and Robyn Sussel Moderator: Lucie McNeil An effective communications strategy can benefit the entire research project lifecycle, from engaging stakeholders in project development, to mobilizing research outputs in …

Project Manager, Knowledge Translation and Exchange Strategy Design

June 25, 2012June 21, 2012 by Erika Steibelt

Cancer Care Ontario

POSITION SUMMARY/RÉSUMÉ DU POSTE:

Our vision

To build the best health systems in the world

To deliver on our vision at Cancer Care Ontario, we believe that by sharing and supporting knowledge of the approaches that drive quality, accountability, innovation, and value we will accelerate health-system improvements.

The Ontario Cancer Plan identifies knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) as a dynamic process that involves getting the right knowledge into the hand of the right people to help drive quality, accountability and innovation. KTE is critical to advancing CCO’s quality agenda for the cancer system and represents a significant component of our activity. We are seeking to better coordinate our efforts, ensure best-practice methods are consistently applied, be innovative in our use of technology and maximize our value-for-effort and investment.

We are seeking an individual with a passion for building strategic communication frameworks and the ability to unifying a diverse group of stakeholders under a common set of goals and outcomes. This role provides a unique opportunity to shape the future of our knowledge sharing framework. Candidates should possess program development experience and an enthusiasm for creating best in class strategies across audiences and through innovative communications vehicles.