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NCCPH KT Graduate Awards 2012

Goal

The purpose of the awards is to recognize the work of graduate students regarding knowledge translation (KT) in public health in Canada.

Award

Up to three awards will be given annually at the CPHA Annual Conference. Travel, accommodation and registration fees will be covered up to a maximum of $1,500.

Eligibility

The award is open to students who are currently enrolled in a graduate program (full or part-time) in a Canadian academic institution, in a discipline relevant to public health OR students who graduated from a post-secondary institution in the last 12 months.

Application Guidelines

Submit the following information:

1. Completed application form

2. Summary that describes how your academic work (course work, academic papers and/or thesis) is developing,
implementing and/or evaluating knowledge translation strategies in public health. [2 page maximum, 1” margins,
minimum 11 point font]

3. Letter of support from your faculty or academic supervisor that includes confirmation of your current program of
study (or program attendance within the past 12 months) and academic institution.

Submission & Deadline

Please return the completed application form and supporting documentation by April 10, 2012 to:

Canadian Public Health Association Awards Committee
300-1565 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R1
conference@cpha.ca Fax: 613-725-9826

Selection Process

Applications will be reviewed and scored according to the following criteria:

• relevance to knowledge translation in public health
• creativity/innovation shown in the project
• scholarliness of the project
• potential impact of the project
• quality and degree of support of academic supervisor

Preference will be given to students who are implementing and evaluating the knowledge translation strategy with public health staff, managers or policy-makers.

An NCCPH subcommittee will review and score the applications and make recommendations to the NCCPH Leads for approval.

Award Deadlines

Launch of Call for Applications        February 21, 2012
Application Deadline                        April 10, 2012
Notice to Successful Recipients     April 29, 2012
Deadline for Acceptance                 May 12, 2012

For further information, please contact:
Donna Ciliska at ciliska@mcmaster.ca

NCCPH Knowledge Translation Awards
Posted on : 5/20/2011. Categorized as : awards, students

The National Collaborating Centres for Public Health wish to congratulate the three graduate students who have won the NCCPH Knowledge Translation Awards. Given for the first time in 2010, these awards recognize the work of graduate students in knowledge translation in public health in Canada.

Here's a brief presentation of the winners and their work:

1. Sherilee Harper
Doctoral student in epidemiology, University of Guelph
Sherilee is studying drinking water quality in Canadian North - relationships between weather, water quality and human GI disease. She is also evaluating education of high school students in interactive curriculum, traveling media kit, digital storytelling.
 
2.  Fleur Macqueen Smith
Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Saskatchewan
She has worked on Healthy Children Research Program; has studied on-line communities of practice and developed and tested a tool for building communities of practice, particularly linking researchers and practitioners.
 
3. Meghan Winters
Doctoral student, School of public health, UBC 
She worked on built environment and influence on the use of bicycle for transportation; she developed interactive planning tool for urban planners to help decide where best to put paths, how location is related to bicycle use for transport.
  

Sherilee, Fleur and Meghan will receive their awards at the CPHA's conference in Montreal.

The National Collaborating Centres for Public Health salutes the work of excellence of Sherilee, Fleur, and Meghan and wish to thank all those who submitted their candidacy. The Centres invite graduate students to look for next year's application submission process for the NCCPH Knowledge Translation Graduate Student Awards, in Spring 2012.