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Developing strategies to enhance health services research capacity in a predominantly rural Canadian health authority
qualifications: PhD
contribution: collected data, input data, wrote the first draft, designed the project, literature review
position: Research facilitator
Canada
research capacity building, knowledge translation and exchange, facilitation, rural and remote health, health services research
qualifications: MSc
contribution: collected data, designed the project, contributed to drafts
position: Research facilitator
Canada
Leslie Bryant MacLean's (MSc, CEP, Manager Knowledge Support, Interior Health) research interests lie in the areas of health service delivery, the measurement of care for the elderly and the measurement of knowledge translation and research capacity building activity. Ms. MacLean was a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research funded research facilitator under the HSPRSN research capacity enhancement program for BC's health authorities. Currently, as the Manager for Knowledge Support she is working on utilizing key relationships with academic researchers across Canada to enable collaboration and networking opportunities for Health Authority decision makers as well as focus on the measurement aspect of KT activities, particularly the measurement of relationship building and its influence on knowledge transfer.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts
position: Past-executive director, HSPRSN
qualifications: PhD
contribution: designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts
position: Corporate director, Information Support & Research
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