Every November, the Research Department hosts a month of collaborative events, bringing together leaders and researchers, healthcare providers and patients to learn about the importance of translating evidence into practice to improve care and outcomes.
- Nov. 3 (1 - 2 pm) | Generating Change in Seclusion Practices through Diverse Perspectives
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A collaboration among healthcare providers, people with lived experience, and academic researchers
Presenters:
- Zoë Newson (she/her), Transitional Discharge Model (TDM) Peer Support Manager, Mental Health Recovery Partners, South Island
- Allie Slemon, PhD, RN (she/they), Assistant Professor – School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Co-Founder – AdJust Research Collective
Moderator:
- Clara Rubincam, PhD (she/her), Learning Health System Facilitator, Island Health
- Nov. 10 (11 am - 12 pm) | Working Together: Co-Creating a Dementia-Friendly Comox Valley
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Presenters:
- Mariko Sakamoto PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, University of Victoria
- Charlotte Oxford, Nursing student, North Island College
- Kendra Graves, Nursing student, North Island College
Moderator:
- Uta Sboto-Frankenstein, PhD (she/her), Research Navigator (Mid- and North Island), Island Health
- Nov. 20 (12 - 1 pm) | Island Health Library Services: Trusted Expertise in Times of Change
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Your Island Health Library offers much more than just books! Are you looking for evidence-based information to support patient care, professional development, staff education, policy and procedure development, or general evidence-based research? The Library Services team can help you save time – and avoid adverse events – by getting you the information you need when you need it.
Presenters:- Matt Kaufhold, Sean De Maio, & Paula Osachoff, Medical Librarians, Island Health
Facilitators:
- Mary Vassilopoulos & Thea Chamberlain, Library Technicians, Island Health
- Nov. 23 (11 am - 12:30 pm) | Cultivating a Learning Health System Together: Advancing Harm Reduction in Island Health
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Presenters:
- Sharon Karsten, PhD, Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar, Vancouver Island University Director, Walk With Me (walkwithme.ca)
- Christopher Hauschildt, Peer Researcher and Operations Coordinator, Walk With Me; MA Student, Global Leadership, Royal Roads University; Mitacs Research Fellow, Vancouver Island University
- Michael Ma, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria
Moderator:
- Tracey Thompson, Harm Reduction Coordinator, Addiction Medicine & Substance Use Services, Island Health
- Nov. 27 (12 - 1:30 pm) | Evidence-into-Practice Awards & Presentations
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You're invited to celebrate the winners of the 14th-annual Evidence-into-Practice Awards: the feel-good event of 2026 and the finale of Knowledge-to-Action Month!
Join us to celebrate knowledge translation initiatives that have successfully move evidence into practice at Island Health; find out who's won the gold, silver, and bronze awards and how they did it!
Recordings from previous years are linked below.
- 2025 Events
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- Knowing the Risks: Lowering Cannabis-related Harms and Reducing Alcohol Consumption
- Walking Together to Create an Indigenous Framework for Diabetes Care
- Complex Relational Trauma and Complex PTSD: Closing the Gap in Healthcare for Patients
- Advancing Island Health’s Response to Climate Change
- Evidence-into-Practice Presentations & Awards Ceremony
- 2024 Events
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- Everything You Wanted to Know about Evidence in Health Care… But Were Afraid to Ask
- Community Virtual Care: Harnessing Technology to Connect, Empower and Improve
- Advancing Evidence-Informed Decision-Making at Island Health
- "Walking Together In the Same Direction”: A Culturally-Rooted Model for Indigenous Diabetes Prevention and Care
- Bridging research and practice in Long-Term Care: Improving quality of care through the INFORM model (recording)
- Walk With Me: A Learning Health System Response to the Toxic Drug Crisis
- There’s a Rock in my Shoe! Clinician-Led Knowledge-to-Action
- Evidence-into-Practice Presentations & Awards Ceremony
- 2023 Events
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- Canada’s Journey from Research to Impact
- Addressing overdose risks and fatalities: the Safer Bathroom Toolkit
- There's a rock in my shoe! Examples of Clinician-Led Knowledge to Action
- A Model for Intercultural Collaboration in Psychedelic Research
- The Rise of Health Misinformation, the Consequences, and the Cures
- Generating knowledge to reduce preterm births in Quw’utsun (Cowichan) territory
- Evidence-into-Practice Presentations and Award Ceremony
- 2022 Events
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- Health XChange: How are Local Innovators Transforming Healthcare?
- There's a rock in my shoe! Examples of Clinician-Led Knowledge to Action
- What You Need to Know: Knowledge Translation Practice and Research
- Pain Education Day: Facilitating Patient Pathways
- Getting Research Evidence into the Right Hands: Examples of Innovative Health Knowledge Mobilization
- Integrated Métis-Led Research: Improving Access to Health Services
- Choosing Wisely: Climate Conscious Quality Improvement in Action
- Leading Change in the Health System: How to Make It Stick
- A Conversation on Emerging Research Evidence in Psychedelic Therapy
- We Needed One, and then COVID Happened: Managed Alcohol Programs in the Context of the COVID-19
- Harm Reduction – Substance Use Policy: Walking Our Talk
- 10th Annual Knowledge-to-Action Presentation and Awards Ceremony
- 2021 Events
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View recordings on our Vimeo channel.
- 2020 Events
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Heads Together Virtual Think Tank: Research & Prevention - Best Practices to address the Intersections of Mental Health, Addiction & Brain Injury
Substance use grand rounds: Drug Checking: Implementing harm reduction in dual public health crisis
- 2019 Events
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View recordings on our Vimeo channel.
- 2018 Events
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View recordings on our Vimeo channel.