HSG 654Knowledge Mobilzation to Serve Society

The goal of knowledge transfer is to make publicly-funded research more useful to policy, practice, and the public. In this interdisciplinary course students learn how to gather, evaluate, synthesize and summarize scholarly knowledge in ways that meet the needs, timeframes, culture, and realities of stakeholders. Students will examine strategies and techniques used in a variety of fields to make research findings more useful and usable beyond the academy. Experts from the areas of policy, media, and practice will offer their perspectives on knowledge transfer and the need for increased research impact.