Profiles And Contributions To This Article

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

Leslie Bryant MacLean

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.