IHACC PhD Student Receives National Knowledge Translation Award!

Congratulations to IHACC PhD student Steven Lam for receiving a National Collaborating Centres for Public Health’s Knowledge Translation Award at the Public Health 2019 conference in Ottawa this week!

Steven receives this award for his PhD research project, “Towards gender transformative changes: the potential role of collaborative evaluation and integrated knowledge translation” , which synthesizes experiences from scholarly evaluations and draws synergies between evaluation and knowledge translation to inform public health programs.

Winning projects were assessed based on the project’s relevance to knowledge translation in public health; creativity/innovation shown in the project; scholarliness of the project; potential impact of the project; and quality and degree of support of academic supervisor. See the full list of winners on the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health 2019 website!

Congratulations Steven!