Knowledge Translation in

Science and Practice:

A funder’s perspective

Tammy CliffordVice-President, Research Programs, CIHRTwitter: @TammyJClifford

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Overview

Background – Why CIHR values KT

Current landscape – How CIHR enables KT

Forward thinking – Where we’re headed

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Knowledge Translation

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Background – Why CIHR values KT

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“… the creation of new

knowledge and its

translation into improved

health for Canadians, more

effective health services

and products and a

strengthened Canadian

health care system.”

- CIHR Act

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Knowledge

Creators

Knowledge

Users

From the bench to the bedside & beyond

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KT across all Pillars at CIHR

Encouraging all researchers

to consider:

• The potential use and

applicability of their work; and

• How their results could have a

wider impact if they were jointly

produced, shared, discussed

and/or understood by

appropriate knowledge users.

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Current landscape – How CIHR

enables KT

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Delivering on CIHR’s Commitment to KT

Funding KT

• Open programs

• Strategic programs

• Strategic initiatives

• Program designs

Doing KT

• Brokering relationships with partners and knowledge

users to enable evidence- informed decision making

Policies for KT

• Science policies: Enabling open science

• Funding policies: Allowing grant funds for KT-related

activities

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Funding KT

Projects that include KT

• Bridging worlds - researchers

with knowledge users co-leading

research projects

• Supporting implementation

science through KT research

• Enabling innovation

• Advancing best practices

Priority-DrivenInvestigator-Initiated

All Major Initiatives include KT

• Strategies that embed KT

principles & evaluation metrics to

ensure uptake of research

findings

• Early planning of KT activities and

deliverables to support

partnerships, dissemination,

knowledge synthesis, networks,

implementation science,

commercialization and data

sharing

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Funding KT:

Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health

Transitions in Care

Supporting inter-disciplinary

teams to optimize patient

outcomes. Funding

implementation, evaluation,

spread, and scale of solutions

to problems associated with

transitions in care from a

clinical, health care and/or

health system perspective.

Sepsis Research Network

Funding a single nationally

coordinated research network

to further understand the

causes and improve the

prevention, detection and

management of sepsis.

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Funding KT:

CIHR’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research

Spotlight on:

• SPOR SUPPORT

Units

• SPOR Canadian Data

Platform

- SPOR Patient Engagement Framework, 2014

“A continuum of research that

engages patients as partners,

focuses on patient-identified

priorities and improves patient

outcomes. This research,

conducted by multidisciplinary

teams in partnership with relevant

stakeholders, aims to apply the

knowledge generated to improve

healthcare systems and practices.”

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Doing KT:

The Best Brains Exchange Program

Provide evidence on topics identified

as a high priority by Federal, Provincial

and Territorial policy makers.

• One-day by invitation only

meeting

• Senior level policy decision

makers

• Research and implementation

expertise

• Forum for interaction, exchange

and mutual learning

100th Best

Brains

Exchange

January 2020

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Policies for KT :

Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications

Articles must be freely accessible within 12 months of

publication.

Publish in an Open Access Journal

Fees are an eligible expenseDeposit in Open Access Archive

Free Disciplinary or

Institutional Repository

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Policies for KT:

Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy

Institutional

Data StrategiesData Management

Plans

Data

Deposit

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Forward thinking – Where we’re

headed

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Opportunities & Emerging Context

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“The objective of the CIHR is to excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products and a strengthened

Canadian health care system.” (CIHR Act, 4h)

The future of…Funding KTDoing KT

Policies for KT

NEW! CIHR Strategic Plan (June 2020)

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Enabling Research Excellence

• Open Science

• Research Data Alliance

• San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

(DORA)

• World Health Organization’s Joint Statement on

Public Disclosure of Results from Clinical Trials

Thinking global, acting local:

THANK YOU! ?