INFANT Research Centre are delighted to be hosting a special guest speaker event with Dr. Shannon Scott, Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation for Children’s Health from the University of Alberta, Canada on Thursday 7 September from 13.00-14.00 in room 1.02 Brookfield Health Sciences Complex.
In advance of the launch of UCC Futures: Children, and in line with the strategy of UCC to build on our reputation for excellence in the field of children’s health, rights and wellbeing, this talk would be of particular interest to researchers at all stages working in areas of child health research, knowledge translation and patient engagement.
Dr. Shannon Scott is an internationally recognised nurse, scientist, educator and knowledge translation and knowledge mobilization leader. Knowledge translation (KT) is the process of taking information from reliable evidence-based research and putting it into user-friendly form for everyone to understand and use. During this event, Dr. Scott will discuss the growing movement to involve patients in health research and share insights into her research programme “Translating Evidence in Child Health to Enhance Outcomes” (ECHO). This programme aims to develop, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based knowledge translation (KT) tools with parents to improve health decision-making and outcomes.
She will also talk about their iterative co-development process, discuss the development of parent advisory forums and the progressive research that is focused on cultural adaptation of interventions. These research findings and experience will be of importance to anyone doing co-development research as well as those who actively and authentically involve patients in their research.
If you’re interested in attending, register HERE. Please feel free to share event with colleagues who may also find it of interest.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Shannon Scott is an internationally recognized nurse, scientist, educator and knowledge translation and knowledge mobilization leader. As the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation for Children’s Health, Dr. Scott has improved health outcomes for children through her interdisciplinary research that merges research and the arts to develop national award-winning knowledge translation tools for Canadian families. She is a founding co-Director of Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) a national initiative that is game changing for children’s emergency care. She has received more than $58,000,000 (Canadian dollars) of research funding as principal investigator and coinvestigator, published more than 200 publications and delivered more than 550 presentations around the globe.
