The ambition of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship initiative to modernise the health system is impressive. Embedded researchers who work between academia and nonacademic settings offer an opportunity to reframe the problem of evidence uptake as a product of a gap between those who produce knowledge and those who use it. As such, there has been an ...

The traditional separation of the producers of research evidence in academia from the users of that evidence in healthcare organisations has not succeeded in closing the gap between what is known about the organisation and delivery of health services and what is actually done in practice. As a consequence, there is growing interest in alternative models of knowledge creation and mobilisation, o...

In collaboration with Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, a local authority public health department in North East England appointed an embedded researcher as part of a new, innovative approach to increasing research evidence in public health. There were two parts to the researcher’s role: one to undertake a qualitative evaluation of an ‘integrated wellbeing model’, a ...

Phil Koopman is a senior researcher at United Technologies Research Center. He currently designs and evaluates architectures and communications protocols for Otis elevators, Norden radars, UT automotive components, and other embedded applications. He has previously worked for Harris Semiconductors as an embedded CPU architect and the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer. Koopman holds a BSEE and an...