Full Description
With increasing demands for evidence-based decision-making, the academic community must be ready to train researchers who can reduce the gap between health care research and practice. One program dedicated to promoting such training is the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF, now the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement) and Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Chair Program. Participants of these programs were selected to develop innovative research programs that bridge this divide, as well as to mentor the next generation on building partnerships with organizations outside the university through applied research.
The CHSRF/CIHR Chairs have come together in Shaping Academia for the Public Good to draw out valuable lessons learned throughout its first decade. It includes chapters on funding, knowledge transfer, policy frameworks, working with multiple stakeholders, and managing organizational settings, among other topics. Shaping Academia for the Public Good will be a helpful resource for those interested in the potential of new research approaches to improve our healthcare system.
Contents
Preface
Jonathan Lomas (Canadian Health Services Research Foundation)
Part 1: Overview of the Book and the Experiment
Chapter 1: Book Introduction: Reflections on an Experiment in Research Funding
Louise Potvin (University of Montreal, Social and Preventive Medicine)
Chapter 2: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Experimenting with a Non-traditional Research Chair Model
Erin Morrison (McMaster University, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of Health Research) and Patricia Conrad (Nova Scotia Department of Health)
Part 2: Innovations in Research Practices
Chapter 3: From Knowledge Transfer to Knowledge Management, and to Value Creation
RÉjean Landry (UniversitÉ Laval, Knowledge Transfer and Innovation) with the collaboration of Nabil Amara (UniversitÉ Laval, Administrative Sciences)
Chapter 4: Evidence-Informed Public Policy Decision Making
Peter Coyte (Chair in Health Services Research from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation)
Chapter 5: The Mediating Role of Research in the Socio Health Space
Louise Potvin (University of Montreal, Social and Preventive Medicine)
Chapter 6: The Back Roads that Go from a Framework to Policy
Linda O'Brien-Pallas (University of Toronto, Nursing and Medicine) with the collaboration of Laureen Hayes (University of Toronto, Research Officer)
Part 3: Novel Ways of Structuring Learning
Chapter 7: Scaling Up for Systems' Changes
Nancy Edwards (University of Ottawa, School of Nursing and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine)
Chapter 8: Service Learning Within a Multi Stakeholder Pharmaceutical Program and Policy Arena
Ingrid S. Sketris (Dalhousie University, College of Pharmacy)
Chapter 9: Engaged Scholarship: Building Capacity in Advanced Practice Nursing Research
Alba DiCenso (McMaster University, Nursing)
Part 4: Organisational Transformations and the Academic Career
Chapter 10: Managing to Manage: The Daily Practices of a Chair
Pat Armstrong (York University, Sociology)
Chapter 11: Promoting Evidence-Informed Management in Health Care Organizations: An Experience in Academic Renewal
Jean-Louis Denis (University of Montreal, Health Adminstration) with the collaboration of Lise Lamothe (University of Montreal, Health Adminstration) and Anne McManus
Chapter 12: A Home Away from Home: The Influence of Organizational Setting upon a Chair's Program
Paula Goering (University of Toronto, Psychiatry)
Part 5: Conclusion
Chapter 13: Lessons Learned from the Chairs Program: An Inductive, Interpretive Analysis
Lesley Degner
