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Forward Thinking: Analyzing gender equity across MSFHR award programs

Forward Thinking: Analyzing gender equity across MSFHR award programs

Dr. Zena Sharman, Dr. Julia Langton, and Amanda Paleologou outline what our data tell us about gender equity in MSFHR’s funding programs, what we’ve been experimenting with, and how we’re moving forward.

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Celebrating the role of research in BC’s health care system – and issuing a challenge or three

Celebrating the role of research in BC’s health care system – and issuing a challenge or three

President & CEO Dr. Bev Holmes discusses the role of research in the health care system and what we can do to get further, faster with our efforts to integrate research and health care.

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Joining forces for responsive and responsible research funding

Joining forces for responsive and responsible research funding

A new partnership opportunity is strengthening the evidence base for health research funding, enabling MSFHR to maximize the impact of our investments on behalf of British Columbians.

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Tackling the challenge: evaluating the funder’s role in KT

Tackling the challenge: evaluating the funder’s role in KT

Gayle Scarrow shares some lessons learned after a recent evaluation of our own KT activities and how those learnings will inform our work going forward.

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Identifying Talent Through Funding Competitions

Identifying Talent Through Funding Competitions

Valerie To, our director of research competitions discusses the evolution of our grant application processes from the early days of paper to today’s system and beyond.

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Evaluating our KT program so we can learn and improve

Evaluating our KT program so we can learn and improve

In 2018, MSFHR undertook an evaluation of our KT program to find out if it was having the desired impact and to inform future KT activities. The resulting evaluation report is now available.

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Gold Leaf prize winner Dr. Erin Michalak reflects on the power of community-based participatory research

Gold Leaf prize winner Dr. Erin Michalak reflects on the power of community-based participatory research

Two-time MSFHR award recipient Dr. Erin Michalak has been honoured with a CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for her work founding CREST.BD.

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The possibilities and challenges of changing health research career paths: emerging themes from the BC health research community

The possibilities and challenges of changing health research career paths: emerging themes from the BC health research community

Maija Tiesmaki reflects on how research career pathways are changing and shares three emerging themes from the health research community.

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From iKT to strategic partnerships

From iKT to strategic partnerships

Gayle Scarrow and Genevieve Creighton discuss the journey taken to develop KT Pathways, a new digital assessment and learning tool for anyone that creates or uses research evidence.

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Forward Thinking: Connecting strategy and evaluation, do’s and don’ts

Forward Thinking: Connecting strategy and evaluation, do’s and don’ts

Zena Sharman and Julia Langton discuss how best to connect strategy and evaluation to help plot a course, define what success looks like, and track our progress and learn along the way.

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