1. Changes & Challenges in Knowledge Translation
Dr Tamika Heiden
Knowledge Translation Australia

2. An initial challenge What on earth is Knowledge Translation?
Different things to different people
The thing you do at the end of a research project
Translational research!
Knowledge Translation is getting the right information, to the right people, at the right time, in a format they can use.

3. KT is the pathway to IMPACT
World Health Org defines KT as:
"The synthesis, exchange, and application of knowledge by relevant stakeholders to accelerate the benefits of global and local innovation in strengthening health systems and improving people’s health."
KT :
Requires partnerships with key users and other stakeholders
Ensures relevancy of questions and deliverables
Includes dissemination and implementation/uptake
Is oriented to creating impact

4. Changes in demand for capacity building
Funders have started asking…..
NSW Office for Health and Medical Research
The Translational Research Grants Scheme (TRGS) 
The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia
 Western Australia Department of Health
SHRAC Research Translation Projects
Telethon-Perth Children's Hospital Research Fund
 Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation
QEMRF Research funding programs
Children’s Hospital Foundation Queensland
Dementia Collaborative Research Centres

5. Willingness for capacity building
The New Zealand Story….
Health Research Council (HRC) & Ministry of Business, Innovation& Employment (MBIE)
Research funders are asking for non-academic impact.
Grants are being awarded based on likely societal impacts in addition to scientific strengths.
Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF)
Researchers/research organisations are being rewarded for non-academic impact

6. Success! New South Wales Department of Health Facilitated connections
Worked with grant applicants
KT planning and capacity development
Gained funding in excess of $1 Million.
Facilitated connections
Researcher collaborations and non-academic connections
Training/awareness
Over 500 researchers & research managers trained in translation and impact planning.

7. Remaining Challenges/opportunities
Rewarding translation & impact
Funding translation & impact
Capacity building