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Knowledge Synthesis & Exchange 

Health Research Institute Seminar Series

The ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Health Research Seminar Series runs monthly between September and April and provides a venue for local and visiting researchers from a variety of disciplines and ÂÜÀòÉäÇø honors and graduate students to present their research.

Attendance is in-person and online. Recordings of past sessions can be viewed on the HRI Website.

The HRI would like to thank the 2024 - 2025 Seminar Series Committee for all of their hard work to plan, organize and host the seminar series: Dr. Kendra Furber, Dr. Rheanna Robinson, Nuziha Thasneem Shakkir, Bree Loeffler and Leana Garraway.

• September 19, 2024
• September 26, 2024
  • • Hosted in partnership with Northern Health
• October 17, 2024
• November 21, 2024
• February 27, 2025
• March 20, 2025
• April 4, 2025
  • 4th Year Honour Students
    • Jenna Rea | Vitamin D and Cognition in Young Adult University Students
    • Rupali Cheema | Short Community-based Sports programs and Mental Health in Immigrant Children and Youth
    • Naomi Cole | Respiratory Muscle Training: Feeling Completely Under Water

Summary of Progress 

Knowledge Synthesis & Exchange 

Knowledge Synthesis (KS) Centre 

The ÂÜÀòÉäÇø HRI Knowledge Synthesis Centre was established in 2019 with the purpose of expanding the capacity of ÂÜÀòÉäÇø and partner organizations to ask and answer health focused questions using synthesis methods, enhancing rural and northern applicability of the evidence, and setting up knowledge to be translated into action in policy and practice.

After discussion and advocating for funding, the role of Knowledge Synthesis Librarian was developed as a co-funded position between the HRI and ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Library, and in May 2024 we welcomed Terri McKellar into this role. Terri’s activities this year have included providing valuable services, supports and capacity building to ÂÜÀòÉäÇø Faculty, staff and students as well as external partners. Terri had assistance from the HRI Research Skills Development Trainee Rhonda Thygesen.

Key supports provided included:

• Collaborative Knowledge Synthesis Projects: Engaging on 12 ÂÜÀòÉäÇø led projects, and along with the HRI Co-Leads and Manager, working with our Northern Health partners to develop a pathway for requests from NH to the Centre, and the beginning stages of developing a cost-recovery model and evaluation plan.
• Methodological Services and Supports: by providing consultations and methodological expertise, & access to and training for Distiller SR review software.
• Training and Capacity Building: Mentoring new employees, and presenting webinars such as . Of particular note, Terri created a with the purpose of guiding students, faculty, staff and the community on review methodologies. This resource was launched in September 2024 and within 4 months had received over 700 views.

The guide and the uptake of NH and ÂÜÀòÉäÇø faculty with the Centre demonstrate the need and impact the Centre can have on quality improvement and health research. It highlights the role that a librarian can play within a Centre focused on review methodology and the need for reviews in an organization, like NH, that is continuously at capacity.

Faculty led projects that utilized HRI’s Distiller Software