CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on “Driving Change” Within the Health System

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  • Christiane PM Casteli University Health and Social Services Centre (IUHSSC) of Capitale-Nationale (CN), Faculty of Nursing Sciences, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada
  • El Kebir Ghandour Institut National D'excellence en Santé et en Services Sociaux (INESSS), Québec City, QC, Canada | Centre Intégré en Santé et Services Sociaux de Chaudière-Appalaches, Ste-Marie, QC, Canada| Département de Médecine Familiale et Médecine D'urgence, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
  • Hazel Williams-Roberts Saskatchewan Health Authority, Saskatoon, SK, Canada | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
  • Ivy Cheng Institute of Health Policy and Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Jonathan Lai McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada | Centre for Innovation in Autism and Intellectual Disabilities, Montreal, QC, Canada
  • Katie Aubrecht Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, Canada | Continuing-Care Research, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • Margaret Saari School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada | SE Health, Markham, ON, Canada
  • Mark Embrett DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada | Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • Megan Highet School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada | Primary and Community Health, Health Service Delivery, Alberta Health, Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • Rebecca Liu Department of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • S Meaghan Sim Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada | Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • Samiratou Ouédraogo Department of Epidemiology Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada | Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (INSPQ), Montréal, QC, Canada
Abstract:

Learning health systems necessitate interdependence between health and academic sectors and are critical to address the present and future needs of our health systems. This concept is being supported through the new Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship, through which postdoctoral fellows are situated within a health system-related organization to help propel evidence-informed organizational transformation and change. A voluntary working group of fellows from the inaugural cohort representing diversity in geography, host setting and personal background, collectively organized a panel at the 2018 Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research Conference with the purpose of describing this shared scholarship experience. Here, we present a summary of this panel reflecting on our experiential learning in a practice environment and its ability for impact.

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volume 8  issue 6

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