Third, all of UINCD's activities should have a dissemination plan that includes local and regional media, stakeholders, and grey and/or academic literature.
SSSKC has now adopted a business plan for further dissemination of HEP that includes a structured marketing and referral strategy.
While the Boyer Commission's challenge to provide every undergraduate with a research experience is admirable, the practicality of such a goal requires more investigation regarding affordances and barriers to a sustained research experience that includes dissemination.
5. Finally, the findings were presented to stakeholders in the two states in the context of dissemination meetings that included those who had participated in data collection, and feedback on the findings was actively sought.
The objective of this article is to discuss the knowledge dissemination and exchange components of the knowledge translation process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange, and ethically sound application of knowledge.
The field of KT aims to improve health services and strengthen the healthcare systems through " a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound application of knowledge" ([ 3], para. 1).
By definition, KT is "a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound application of knowledge to improve the health, provide more effective health services and products, and strengthen the healthcare system" [ 4].
The Canadian Institute of Health Research defines knowledge translation as "a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound application of knowledge to improve health, provide more effective health services and products and strengthen the health care system"[ 5].
aWhile noting CIHR's valuable and oft-quoted definition of KT as "a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically-sound application of knowledge…" [ 12] in this paper we understand KT more broadly as a dynamic, context-shaped process creating cycles of evidence-informed policy and policy-informed evidence.
Key amongst these approaches is knowledge translation (KT) which is defined by the Canadian Institute for Health Research CIHRR) as "a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound application of knowledge to improve the health of Canadians, provide more effective health services and products and strengthen the health care system" (CIHR 2011).
