KT101: Resources

Section	Name	Description
Module 1: Lesson 1: An Overview of Knowledge and the Layers of Knowledge	What Is This Knowledge That We Seek to “Exchange”?	Read the entire article.
	Organizational knowledge and capabilities in healthcare: Deconstructing and integrating diverse perspectives	Read the entire article.
	The use of tacit and explicit knowledge in public health: a qualitative study	Read the entire article.
	Conceptual background and case studies - Introduction to EVIPNet Europe	Read section 1.5 titled "Networking and Knowledge Translation" (pages 19-22).
	Uncovering Tacit Knowledge: A Pilot Study to Broaden the Concept of Knowledge in Knowledge Translation	Read the entire article.
	Knowledge Management as an important tool in Organisational Management: A Review of Literature	Read the entire article.
	Revisiting interaction in knowledge translation	Read the entire article with a focus on knowledge networking.
	Evaluation of a health systems knowledge translation network for Africa (KTNET): a study protocol	Read the entire article.

Module 1: Lesson 2: KT Types, Definitions, Frameworks	The Use of Research Evidence in Public Health Decision Making Processes: Systematic Review	Read the entire article.
	Knowledge translation of research findings	Read the entire article.
	Knowledge translation in health care: a concept analysis	Read the entire article.
	Knowledge translation framework for ageing and health	Click on the link to download the PDF version of the publication. Then, read the entire document. This document provides an outline of the major frameworks of KT.
	Getting Evidence into Policy and Practice: Perspective of a Health Research Funder	Read the entire article.
	Creating a Knowledge Translation Platform: nine lessons from the Zambia Forum for Health Research	Read the entire article.
	Is research working for you? validating a tool to examine the capacity of health organizations to use research	Read the entire article.
	The effectiveness of toolkits as knowledge translation strategies for integrating evidence into clinical care: a systematic review	Read the entire article.
	Defining knowledge translation	Read the entire article.
	The intellectual structure and substance of the knowledge utilization field: a longitudinal author co-citation analysis, 1945 to 2004	Read the entire article.

Module 2: Lesson 1: Types of Evidence	Evidence and Quality, Practicalities and Judgments: Some Experience from NICE	Read the entire article.

Module 2: Lesson 2: Hierarchy of Evidence	Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing: Evaluating the Evidence	Read the entire web page.
	A hierarchy of evidence for assessing qualitative health research	Read the entire article.
	How Can We Support the Use of Systematic Reviews in Policymaking?	Read the entire article.
	Identifying predatory or pseudo-journals	Read the entire article.
	Relative Risk in the News Media: A Quantification of Misrepresentation	Read the entire article.

Module 3: Lesson 1: Overlaps in the Research and Policy Processes	Research’s Practice and Barriers of Knowledge Translation in Iran	Read the entire article.
	Health Researchers and Policy Makers: A Need to Strengthen Relationship	Read the entire article.
	Information transfer: what do decision makers want and need from researchers?	Read the entire article.

Module 3: Lesson 2: Barriers and Facilitators at the Interface	“Developing Good Taste in Evidence”: Facilitators of and Hindrances to Evidence-Informed Health Policymaking in State Government	Read the entire article.
	Knowledge Translation: A Synopsis of the Literature	Read the section titled "Barriers and Enablers to Knowledge Translation" (pages 15-17).
	Challenges to generating evidence-informed policy and the role of systematic reviews and (perceived) conflicts of interest	Read the entire article.
	Increasing the use of evidence in health policy: practice and views of policy makers and researchers	Read the entire article.

Module 3: Lesson 3: Polarization: From Evidence to Advocacy	Knowledge Exchange Processes in Organizations and Policy Arenas: A Narrative Systematic Review of the Literature	Read the entire article.
	Health Care in the 2016 Election — A View through Voters’ Polarized Lenses	Read the entire article.
	Smoke-free air policies: past, present and future	Read the entire article.
	Vision For The Future: A Public Health Approach	Read the beginning of the article, the content under the heading "Time for a change", and "Conclusions".
	Public Health Model of Addiction and Recovery Implications	Read the entire webpage.
	Polarized Politics and Policy Consequences	Read the entire report.
	The Polarizing Effect of News Media Messages About the Social Determinants of Health	Read the entire article.
	The politics of evidence: from evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence	Read Part II (pages 39-83). The rest of the text is optional reading.
	The challenges of nutrition policymaking	Read the entire article.
	Defining and Implementing a Public Health Response to Drug Use and Misuse	Read the entire webpage.

Module 4: Lesson 1: Major Approaches in Knowledge Translation	“Integrated knowledge translation” for globally oriented public health practitioners and scientists: Framing together a sustainable transfrontier knowledge translation vision	Read the entire article.
	A randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of knowledge translation and exchange strategies	Read the entire article.
	Knowledge to Action: An End-of-Grant Knowledge Translation Casebook	Read the section titled "Foreward".
	FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 18: Knowledge Translation at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research: A Primer	Download the PDF version of the brief. Then, read the entire document.
	Integrated Knowledge Translation in Mental Health: Family Help as an Example	Read the entire article.

Module 4: Lesson 2: Brokering and Synthesis & The Knowledge Translation Platform	Knowledge Brokering: The missing link in the evidence to action chain?	Read the entire article.
	A Guide to Knowledge Synthesis: A Knowledge Synthesis Chapter	Read section 1 titled "Background" and section 2 titled "Approaches to knowledge synthesis".
	A Guide to Knowledge Synthesis: A Knowledge Synthesis Chapter	Read section 3 titled "Synthesis methods".
	Conceptual background and case studies - Introduction to EVIPNet Europe	Read section 1.3 titled "Evidence Synthesis" (pages 16-18) and section 1.4 titled "Knowledge Brokering" (pages 18-19).
	Knowledge brokering: Exploring the process of transferring knowledge into action	Read the section titled "Background".
	Capturing lessons learned from evidence-to-policy initiatives through structured reflection	Read the entire article.
	Role Domains of Knowledge Brokering: A Model for the Health Care Setting	Read the entire article.
	Feasibility of a rapid response mechanism to meet policymakers' urgent needs for research evidence about health systems in a low income country: a case study	Read the entire article.
	Evidence-informed health policy 1 – Synthesis of findings from a multi-method study of organizations that support the use of research evidence	Read the entire article.
	Expediting systematic reviews: methods and implications of rapid reviews	Read the entire article.
	Knowledge brokers in a knowledge network: the case of Seniors Health Research Transfer Network knowledge brokers	Read the entire article.
	Method for Synthesizing Knowledge about public policies	Read the entire document.
	Knowledge synthesis and transfer: a case-study	Read pages 1 to 29.
	Building a knowledge translation platform in Malawi to support evidence-informed health policy	Read the entire article.
	Climate for evidence-informed health systems: A print media analysis in 44 low- and middle-income countries that host knowledge-translation platforms	Read the entire article.
	Climate for evidence informed health system policymaking in Cameroon and Uganda before and after the introduction of knowledge translation platforms: a structured review of governmental policy documents	Read the entire article.
	Conceptual background and case studies - Introduction to EVIPNet Europe	Read section 3 titled "Knowledge Translation Platforms" (pages 35-43) and section 4 titled "Knowledge Translation Platform Case Studies" (pages 44-52).

Module 4: Lesson 3: The Policy Brief and Dialogue Model & End-of-grant dissemination tools	SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 13: Preparing and using policy briefs to support evidence-informed policymaking	Read the entire article.
	SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 14: Organising and using policy dialogues to support evidence-informed policymaking	Read the entire article.
	Implementation research toolkit	Download the PDF version of Module 5. Then, read the entire module.
	How can knowledge brokering be advanced in a country’s health system?	Read the entire policy brief.
	Evidence briefs and deliberative dialogues: perceptions and intentions to act on what was learnt	Read the entire article.
	SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs	View the SURE guides online by clicking on the appropriate link. Then explore the entire 8 guides.
	Guide to Knowledge Translation Planning at CIHR: Integrated and End-of-Grant Approaches	Scroll down and read the sections titled "End-of-grant knowledge translation (KT)", "End-of-grant knowledge translation (KT) plan worksheet", and "Examples of end-of-grant knowledge translation (KT)".
	Evidence summaries tailored to health policy-makers in low- and middle-income countries	Read the entire article.
	Knowledge to Action: An End-of-Grant Knowledge Translation Casebook	Read cases 1-9.

Module 5: Lesson 1: An Overview of Stakeholder Analysis Approaches	Section 8. Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests	Read the entire web page.

Module 5: Lesson 2: Simple Stakeholder Analysis Tools	Stakeholder Mapping	Read the entire report.
	Stakeholder Engagement Tool	Download the PDF version of the document by clicking on the appropriate link. Then, read the entire document.
	Stakeholder analysis of the Programme for Improving Mental health carE (PRIME): baseline findings	Read the entire article.
	4 Step Process for Stakeholder Analysis	Read the entire document.
	Performance Measurement: Advice and examples on how to develop effective frameworks	Scroll down and read Module 3 titled "Engaging with stakeholders over measurement" (pages 23-29).
	Health service planning and policy-making: a toolkit for nurses and midwives	Download Module 2 titled "Stakeholder analysis and networks" by clicking on the appropriate link. Then, read the entire module focussing on the exercise sheets.

Module 6: Lesson 1: An Overview of Political Context Analysis Tools	Guidance for Evidence-Informed Policies about Health Systems: Linking Guidance Development to Policy Development	Read the entire article.
	Political and Institutional Influences on the Use of Evidence in Public Health Policy. A Systematic Review	Read the entire article.
	Context Analysis Tools	Read the entire document

Module 6: Lesson 2: Simple Political Context Analysis Tools	Tools for Institutional, Political and Social Analysis of Policy Reform: A Sourcebook for Development Practitioners	Download the PDF then, read the section titled "Tool Name: Force-Field Analysis" (pages 168-171).
	Male circumcision situation analysis toolkit	Scroll down and under the heading titled "Tools for situation analysis", read the content of Tool 3 titled "Stakeholders’ meeting" (pages 34-42) as well as Annex 2 section 3 titled "SWOT Analysis" (page 80-81)" to learn about SWOT analysis and Spider Diagrams (a Trend Analysis Tool).
	Making Decisions Using Force Field Analysis	Read the entire article.
	Section 14. SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats	Read the entire web page.

Module 7: Lesson 1: The Theory of Priority Setting	Deliberative Priority Setting – a CIHR KT module	Read the subsection titled "2. Priority Setting" (pages 6-9) to learn about the two major types of priority-setting processes.
	The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources – findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia	Read the entire article.
	Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): the inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis	Read the entire article.
	A review of selected research priority setting processes at national level in low and middle income countries: towards fair and legitimate priority setting	Read the entire article.
	Priority Setting for Health Policy and Systems Research	Read the entire brief.
	Delivering from the Centre: Strengthening the role of the centre of government in driving priority strategies	Read the entire report.
	Priority Medicines for Europe and the World Update Report, 2013	Read chapter 3 titled "Approaches to Priority Settings".
	Setting Priorities in Global Child Health Research Investments: Universal Challenges and Conceptual Framework	Read the entire article.
	Priority setting and health policy and systems research	Read the entire article.
	Priority setting: what constitutes success? A conceptual framework for successful priority setting	Read the entire article.
	Eliciting policymakers’ and stakeholders’ opinions to help shape health system research priorities in the Middle East and North Africa region	Read the entire article.

Module 7: Lesson 2: Priority Setting for Service Delivery Models and Public Health Interventions	A national Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA) of health improvement spending across Wales: disinvestment and reinvestment across the life course	Read the entire article.
	Health care priority setting in Norway a multicriteria decision analysis	Read the entire article.
	Overview of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)	Read the entire article.
	What is the Bottleneck Analysis Approach for the Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition	Read the entire document.
	Chapter 5 Specialized Substance Abuse Treatment Programs	Read from "Directories of Local Substance Abuse Treatment Systems" until " Treatment Settings". (20 minutes)
	LiST: using epidemiology to guide child survival policymaking and programming	Read the entire article.
	Evidence-Based Priority Setting for Health Care and Research: Tools to Support Policy in Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Africa	Read the entire article.
	Adoption and use of the bottleneck analysis approach in Ghana’s health sector	Read the entire document.

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