This issue brief draws on the session at AcademyHealth's 2012 Annual Research Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The session, "Using HSR to Influence Policy Change and Population Health Improvement," addressed the multifaceted, multidirectional sharing of information between providers and users of research and new and existing approaches for moving knowledge into action to address challenges related to population health. The brief has three sections: (1) Models for HSR knowledge translation and dissemination. As background, the first section of this issue brief reviews several models for bridging the gap from the creation of knowledge through HSR to the dissemination of and use of such knowledge by individuals and entities beyond academia. (2) Challenges in developing and implementing evidence-based research in public health. The second section identifies some of the challenges for practitioners and policymakers in developing and using research evidence to increase the availability of evidence-based public health (EBPH) in practice. (3) Adapting HSR knowledge translation and dissemination models to facilitate the expansion of evidence-based public health. The third section identifies a few of the challenges and opportunities for researchers to move HSR and PHSSR knowledge into action to increase the availability of EBPH in practice.
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