Top 10 insights about the role of intermediaries in supporting systems change
The implementation of evidence-informed policies and practices across systems is complex and multifaceted. In order to facilitate this process, policymakers, innovation developers and service delivery organizations are increasingly calling upon intermediaries to support implementation, yet relatively little is known about precisely how they contribute to it.
On December 10, 2019, McMaster Health Forum presented a webinar featuring Heather Bullock, PhD (Executive lead of RISE). She discussed the role of intermediaries (organizations that work between policy makers and service deliverers) and how they support systems change. She drew insights from her recent examination of intermediaries in mental health systems in several high-income countries.
Also sharing insights on this topic were Alexia Jaouich, PhD, from the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH, and Purnima Sundar, PhD, from the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health.
Webinars in this series feature top ten insights into health- and social-systems, evidence-informed policymaking and a range of key health and social issues, from McMaster Forum experts and influential policymakers, stakeholders and researchers from around the world.
Visit the McMaster 'Top Ten' webinar page or follow #MHFtop10 on Twitter for more details.
This is awesome!
Thanks, Betty-Lou!
Me again. Heather interviewed me eons ago as a stakeholder for her dissertation. Any chance you can ask Heather if I can get the slides emailed to me? We, at the Centre for Innovation in Peer Support are an intermediary as we were built as infrastructure for system support for peer support paid roles into 12 partner agency and hospitals, Communities of Practice for this, support for agencies... ..plus we are now also the direct service provider now that we have amalgamated and have the directorship for CSI provision. So we are both System facing, Provider facing and Direct Service facing. I think the slides and this webinar would be very helpful to explain what we are.
My email is bkristy@shhalton.org
Thanks!
I'm not sure, [@mention:309227366772673999] but I'll see what I can do. But since [@mention:308523583278869321] is a member of this community, perhaps she can answer.
Cool!!!