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Approaching Municipalities to Share Knowledge: Advice from Municipal Civil Servants to Public Health Actors
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Summary - Policy Makers' Advisors, Scientific Knowledge and Knowledge Sharing: Highlights of a Literature Review and Key Lessons
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Webinar - Sharing Knowledge with the Advisors of Policy Makers - A Couple of Myths, a Couple of Tips, click to watch and listen to the recording of the webinar.

Knowledge Sharing and Public Policy – A Representation of Influence Processes
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Social Media in Public Health
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Planning Knowledge Sharing in the Context of a Health Impact Assessment
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Research Matters Knowledge Translation Toolkit. Bennett, G., & Jessani, N. (2011). On the site of the International Development Research Centre.

Facilitating a knowledge translation process: Knowledge review and facilitation tool. Lemire, N., Souffez, K., & Laurendeau, M.-C. (2013).  9 MB. On the site of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec.

Political and institutional influences on the use of evidence in public health policy. A systematic review. Liverani, M., Hawkins, B., & Parkhurst, J.O. (2013). PLoS ONE, 8(10): e77404, 1-9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077404. Free access.

Why doesn't evidence win the day in policy and policymaking? [Blog post] Cairney, P. (2017).

Interview with a former minister of Health in the Australian government : Getting evidence into health policy. Roxon, N. (2017). Public Health Research and Practice, 27(1):e2711701. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17061/phrp2711701 Free access.

Knowledge exchange strategies for interventions and policy in public health. Kouri, D. (2009).  Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, Volume 5, Number 1, January 2009 , pp. 71-83(13). Abstract on the site of ingentaconnect.


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Approaching Municipalities to Share Knowledge: Advice from Municipal Civil Servants to Public Health Actors
What is an effective way to share public health knowledge with the municipal sector? In this document, we present the views expressed by civil servants in Canadian municipalities.
March 2019. Description. Download.  1.4 MB
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Policy Makers' Advisors, Scientific Knowledge and Knowledge Sharing: Highlights of a Literature Review and Key Lessons
This summary of our literature review on the advisors of policy makers focuses on the key lessons for professionals and researchers who wish to share public health knowledge to inform public policy development.
November 2017. Description. Download.  1.2 MB
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The Advisors of Policy Makers: Who Are They, How Do They Handle Scientific Knowledge and What Can We Learn About How to Share Such Knowledge with Them?
The advisors of policy makers play an important role in public policy development and in determining whether and how scientific knowledge is used during this process. This literature review explores their role and proposes avenues for reflection for public health actors who wish to share knowledge with them.
Updated in November 2017. Description. Download.  862 K
Tips for making the most of the proposed avenues for reflection  613 K
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Knowledge Sharing and Public Policies: Method and Preliminary Results of a Literature Review
This document maps the knowledge-sharing contexts studied in the 105 documents selected for our literature review on knowledge sharing targeting public policies. The companion interactive table makes it possible to sort these documents by type of context studied.
Published in November 2015.  Description.  Download  786 K 
Interactive table 92 K
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Querying Databases to Identify Documents on Knowledge Sharing Targeting Public Policies: Example of One Study
This short document presents a ready-to-copy search query designed to query databases through the OVID, EBSCO and ProQuest interfaces.
Published in November 2015.  Description.  Download  644 K
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Knowledge Sharing and Public Policies: A Representation of Influence Processes
This briefing note provides an overview of the processes through which public health knowledge can influence public policy.
Published in March 2015.  Description.  Download   730 K
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Social Media in Public Health
This document outlines the use of social media by organizations with a public health focus.
Published in January 2015. Description. Download  769 K
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Logic Model for Evaluating Knowledge-Sharing Activities - NCCHPP Internal Tool
This working tool guides the evaluation of the NCCHPP's knowledge-sharing activities. We are making it publicly available in order to contribute to further reflection and discussion on knowledge sharing.
Published in October 2013.  Description.  Download   206 K
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Guide for Developing a Knowledge-Sharing Plan - NCCHPP Internal Tool
This working tool is used at the NCCHPP to plan knowledge-sharing activities. We are making it publicly available in order to contribute to further reflection and discussion on this topic.
Published in October 2013.  Description.  Download   214 K
Word Version 199 K
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Planning Knowledge Sharing in the Context of a Health Impact Assessment
This briefing note explains how to plan and incorporate knowledge-sharing activities while conducting a health impact assessment.
Published in September 2013.  Description.  Download  601 K
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The key role of public health associations in influencing the public policy process
Dior Ba and Louise St-Pierre, who are both associated with the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy argue in this 2007 paper that public health associations can and should play an important role in the development of healthy public policies.
Published in May, 2007. Description.  Read the paper.  (On the site of RHPEO).
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