While still a relatively new initiative the Knowledge Centre has attracted the attention of a wide and varied audience.
This study examined the impact of a primary-school HIV education initiative on the knowledge, self-efficacy and sexual and condom use activities of upper primary-school pupils in Kenya.
Much of the work involves travelling, talking to people about the practicality of a new initiative, using the knowledge of experts who might give it a very clever twist, and learning from locals who provide essential regional experience, especially in international initiatives.
Should Measure HH pass via initiative, in the knowledge of what the City would be able to negotiate, I can say with great confidence that the City would at a minimum lose tens of millions of dollars of additional revenue which could be negotiated with the developer had he adhered to the same process everyone else in the City - including other developers - has to go through.
This project was funded by the Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada (PFC) through a B.E. Schnurr Memorial Fund Award, AIHS through a knowledge translation initiative grant, the Knowledge Translation (KT) Canada Research Stipend Program, the CIHR Banting program and the University of Alberta.
This 4-year initiative combines the knowledge of experimental and clinical researchers with that of clinical experts with the goal of reducing the fragmentation in international research and striving for international cooperation, bringing together leading researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines.
The goal is to inform proactive initiatives to expand the knowledge base of clinical decision support systems.
Knowledge translation was written into CIHR's mandate, marking a paradigm shift in government thinking of dramatic proportion, and the scholarship was one of CIHR's first initiatives to see the knowledge translation portion of its mandate fulfilled.
The solution to the problem, as it had been during the colonial period, was seen to be expert-led, top-down initiatives totally neglecting the knowledge held by dryland peoples themselves.
Current efforts at securing finance, implementing initiatives and building the knowledge base are accelerating but remain fragmented and often sectorial in their nature; we thus offer some key recommendations for areas of future progress.
