Community-based sexual health research with marginalized and HIV-affected communities: strategies for translating research to policy and practice

April 27, 2018

Speaker

Dr.Kate Shannon, Associate Professor, Director of the Gender and Sexual Health Program, Canada Research Chair in Global Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS, University of British Columbia

Objectives:

  • To discuss KT examples in partnering with marginalized communities
  • To describe how to develop KT strategies to share research with policy makers, practice leaders and knowledge users

Upcoming webinar

Dr. Kelly Cobey

Date

September 27, 2024

Shifting research assessment to open science and beyond

In 2024, KT Connects is focusing on open science — the practice of making scientific inputs, outputs, and processes freely available to all with minimal restrictions. Learn more.

Webinar summary

Friday, September 27 

12 – 1 p.m. PST 

In this webinar, Dr. Kelly Cobey will provide an overview of national and international science policy related to open science. She will discuss why implementing open science has been relatively slow in Canada and share considerations to drive improvements.

She will talk about the academic incentives and rewards used in the Canadian research system, explaining why they can be ineffective to help most funders or institutions reach mission-driven goals. She will use examples to highlight instances where the system could be improved to align with patient preferences.

Learning objectives

After this webinar, the audience will be able to:

• describe limitations of the current system of incentives and rewards in research
• describe what open science is and factors that impact its implementation
• identify relevant Canadian science policies and frameworks related to open science and research assessment

Speaker bio

Dr. Kelly Cobey is a scientist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute where she leads the Metaresearch and Open Science Program. She is also an associate professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Cobey has interests in topics including the implementation of open science, the reporting quality of research, data management and sharing best practices, research reproducibility, and patient engagement in research. She is active in the national and international global science policy community. She presently serves as the co-chair of Declaration On Research Assessment (DORA) and is a current member of the Council of Canadian Academies expert panel on dual-use research of concern (DURC). She actively consults to provide her expertise to federal agencies and academic institutions.