Knowledge Translation In Public Health Research Articles

Will Podcasting and Social Media Replace Journals and Traditional Science Communication? No, but...

The digital world in which we live is changing rapidly. The evolving media environment is having a direct impact on traditional forms of communication and knowledge translation in public health and epidemiology. Openly accessible digital media can be used to reach a broader and more diverse audience of trainees, scientists, and the lay public than can traditional forms of scientific communication. The new digital landscape for delivering content is vast, and new platforms are continuously being added. In this article, we focus on several, including Twitter and podcasting, and discuss their relevance to epidemiology and science communication. We highlight 3 key reasons why we think epidemiologists should be engaging with these mediums: 1) science communication, 2) career advancement, and 3) development of a community and public service. Other positive and negative consequences of engaging in these forms of new media are also discussed. The authors of this commentary are all engaged in social media and podcasting for scientific communication, and we reflect on our experiences with these mediums as tools to advance the field of epidemiology.

A Movement in the Making: Building Collaborations with Public Health Experts and Policymakers

For public health to meet the challenges of COVID-19 and beyond, to increase evidence-based decision making, and to realize public health as a public good, we need a broad, intentional movement to build coalitions among public health experts in academia, research, practice, and the public sector. The authors discuss how failure to invest in public health systems, inadequate health communications, and poor public health practice during the COVID-19 pandemic opened the door for informal systems of information sharing and the consequences thereof. The lesson that public health professionals and public health associations need to draw from the COVID-19 pandemic is that communicating effectively is critical to ensuring that evidence, even emerging evidence, guides decision-makers. We discuss the challenges of evidence-based decision-making in public health policymaking and highlight examples of academic institutions that have invested in public health knowledge translation. Finally, we describe how the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree was designed to bridge communities of practice, and what is needed for those with DrPH training to stand up and meet the moment.

Knowledge translation strategies designed for public health decision-making settings: a scoping review.

To review and describe available Knowledge Translation (KT) strategies that are designed for or applied in public health decision-making settings. KT is the exchange, synthesis, and ethically sound application of knowledge. This review proposes that KT strategies in public health settings should be understood as action plans that promote evidence use and facilitate evidence-informed decision-making. This scoping review included studies that reported on KT strategies applied in public health settings, published between 2010 and 2017. Studies were searched using Medline, online KT database, and citation tracing. Data from 305 included studies were synthesized using a coding form and conceptually mapped to identify KT strategies used in public health settings. A total of 124 unique examples of KT methods or tools were identified and summarized into 38 recommended and promising KT strategies. Built on the lists of recommended strategies, this review synthesized a framework that matched all 38 KT strategies to 10 key components of the evidence-informed decision-making process. The public health KT strategies summarized and organized by this review promote a better understanding and more effective use of KT strategies.

10.P. Skills building seminar: Knowledge translation in public health: Moving from evidence to policy and practice

10.P. Skills building seminar: Knowledge translation in public health: Moving from evidence to policy and practice

10.P. Skills building seminar: Knowledge translation in public health: Moving from evidence to policy and practice

10.P. Skills building seminar: Knowledge translation in public health: Moving from evidence to policy and practice

Evidenzbasierte Politik und nachhaltiger Wissenstransfer: Eine Perspektive für die Gesundheitsförderung in Deutschland

This article proposes to shift the focus of our view on evidence-based policy towards a comprehensive "policy orientation". While previous contributions on policy making in public health have already recognised that the evidence-based medicine paradigm is inappropriate for the specificities of the policy context, they still have primarily dealt with evidence of the policy content, i. e. with research to inform policy makers about "what works" in public health (e. g. evidence-based interventions on health determinants). However, they have widely neglected issues pertaining to the policy process, i. e. knowledge concerning "what works" in policy making (e. g. key determinants of policy development and policy implementation in order to build policy capacities and to improve policy outcomes). A broader perspective including the policy process will allow us to contextualise theory and research in a way more appropriate to the process of policy making and will help improve approaches of applied science and knowledge translation in public health. We will illustrate the differences be-tween a content orientation and a policy process orientation in public health by reviewing previous discourses on 3 closely related topics: (1) the production of evidence for policy making, (2) the conditions for the utilisation of evidence in policy making, and (3) the translation of evidence into policy making. We conclude that future public health theory and research, while continuing to broaden the evidence base on health determinants and health interventions, should increasingly focus on research concerning processes of public health policy development and implementation, building frameworks, developing methodologies, and conducting the necessary empirical research.

The role and theoretical evolution of knowledge translation and exchange in public health

There is an increased emphasis in public health research on effective models and strategies to support knowledge translation (KT), the exchange, synthesis and ethically sound application of research findings within a complex set of interactions among researchers and knowledge users. In other words, KT can be seen as an acceleration of the knowledge cycle-an acceleration of the natural transformation of knowledge into use (Canadian Institutes of Health Services Research. Knowledge Translation Strategy, 2004). The most recent conceptualizations consider the complexities of public health decision-making. The role of practitioners and communities is increasingly considered. We identify, describe and discuss the theoretical underpinnings of KT and recommend a way forward to build the evidence for more effective practice. Theoretical perspectives increasingly influence research on KT in public health. A range of innovative work is being conducted to explore methods for KT using practical tools, often with the support of government. KT describes a crucial and to date under-developed element of the research process. There is an important gap in theoretically informed empirical studies of effectiveness of proposed approaches in public health, health promotion and preventive medicine, and thus much of the debate remains abstract. There is clearly an urgent policy need to establish the effectiveness of KT models in a range of contexts. This must include both the consideration of development and the utilization of knowledge.