Knowledge Translation Strategies Focused on Mother and Child Health and Wellbeing
Effective Knowledge Translation Strategies for Policy and Action Focused on Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Wellbeing: A Rapid Scoping Review
Project Status:Complete
Knowledge User(s)
World Health Organization
Project Trainee(s)
Allyson Gallant, Hwayeon Danielle Shin, Julia Kontak
Collaborator(s)
Etienne Langlois, Mehr Shah
Funding Source(s)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance
Project Objectives
To identify existing literature related to knowledge translation strategies that promote the uptake of evidence into policy and action focused on improving sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and wellbeing.
Research Approach
Rapid Scoping Review
Project Lead(s)
Janet Curran
Janet Curran is a Professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University and a Research Chair in Quality and Patient Safety at IWK Health, Nova Scotia Health and Dalhousie University.
She is the Scientific Lead in the Strengthening Transitions in Care lab at IWK Health where her program of research is focused on co-designing and evaluating best practice and policy change interventions to improve transitions in care for patients and families. Her co-design work is informed by collaborating with multiple stakeholders including patients, parents and caregivers, healthcare providers, and policy makers.
Janet Curran
Dalhousie University, Maritimes SPOR SUPPORT Unit
Janet Curran is a Professor in the School of Nursing...