The challenge of ensuring that "what is known" is actually "what is practised" has become a high priority. This has created a great deal of interest in what is known as knowledge exchange or knowledge sharing (or a host of similar terms). CARBC has a unit dedicated to helping to collect knowledge from various sources and make it available to policy-makers and practitioners in ways that they can use. This website is one part of that strategy.

Other knowledge exchange sites include:

The Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention (Public Health Agency of Canada)
Best Practice Portal (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction)

Several good resources explain the concept of knowledge exchange or provide guidance for effectively sharing knowledge. Some of our favourites include:

A Handbook on Knowledge Sharing: Strategies and Recommendations for Researchers, Policymakers, and Service Providers (Lily Tsui and others)
Best Practice Portal (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction)
Drug and Alcohol Findings (DrugScope and others)
From Research to Practice: A Knowledge Transfer Planning Guide (Institute for Work & Health)
Knowledge Translation: Basic Theories, Approaches and Applications (Anne-Marie Schryer-Roy)
Knowledge Translation for Indigenous Communities: Policy Making Toolkit (P. Gaye Hanson & Janet Smylie)
Knowledge Translation in Health and Development: Research to Policy Strategies (International Development Research Centre)
Knowledge Use in the Calgary Health Region: A Scan of Initiatives that Support Use of Evidence in Practice (University of Calgary & Calgary Health Region)
Making Health Communication Programs Work (US Department of Health & Human Services)
Successful Communication: A Toolkit for Researchers and Civil Society Organizations (Ingie Hovland)
Tools to Help Organizations Create, Share, and Use Research (Canadian Health Services Research Foundation)