The Ontario Public Health Standards consist of four principles (need, impact, capacity, and partnership/collaboration), one foundational standard with specific areas (population health assessment, surveillance, research and knowledge exchange, and programme evaluation), and 14 programme standards grouped into five programme areas.
Knowledge exchange is key to the programme.
Boaz and colleagues [ 20],concluding a systematic review, called for the development of new conceptual frameworks and methods to orient future evaluations of interventions designed to promote research use, including knowledge brokers, networks, and linkage and exchange programmes.
The principles have been used to inform the design of knowledge exchange and stakeholder engagement guidelines for two international research programmes.
Throughout the four-year collaborative process, CAMH and UNAN-León have developed programmes that are mutually beneficial, based on knowledge exchange, sustainability, and shared respect.
All learning and knowledge exchange should aim to provide actionable and practical how-to solutions and facilitate partnerships for future programmes and policies.
It draws on the CFHCI EXTRA programme, 5 and consists of two interactive workshops led by experts in knowledge exchange and policy development.
Wendy Earle is knowledge exchange manager at Birkbeck.
The conference called for more exchange programmes for schoolchildren.
Julie Northam is head of research and knowledge exchange at Bournemouth University.
Academics are often tokenistic when it comes to knowledge exchange.
