Linking strategic health research development to informing evidence-based practice: Experiences of a rural healthcare organization in the United Kingdom
Visiting Scholar, Dr. Bonnie Teague (Co-Hosted with Northern Health)
Title: Linking strategic health research development to informing evidence-based practice: Experiences of a rural healthcare organization in the United Kingdom
Description: Where do you start when you want to develop a high-quality evidence base to tackle the grand challenges in healthcare, but have no research culture in your organization? This seminar will focus on the experiences of a large rural hospital in the United Kingdom to co-develop with service users, carers and underserved communities, a strategic and sustainable program of health research.
Through sharing examples, successes and pitfalls, we will explore the career development of nurses, clinical academics and psychologists as embedded clinician-research specialists working alongside patients as co-researchers. The program, now eight years old, specializes in developing and delivering complex research for complex health systems, as a way of overcoming systemic barriers to implementing innovations to care, and advancing key healthcare policies both nationally and globally.
Speaker Biography: Dr. Bonnie Teague is Associate Professor of Mental Health Services Research at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, and Head of Research at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a Rural Health Fellow with the NICHE Anchor institute, and elected fellow of the Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare. She has worked in clinical research in health settings for over 20 years, heading up a multi-disciplinary clinical research team which has been awarded over £11 million of research funding. She is chief investigator and co-investigator on numerous National Institute of Health Research and regional projects relating to children and family health, community research engagement and dementia care. She is also supervisor for MSc Nurses and Doctoral trainees of clinical psychology, and teaches about subjects such as health systems, global health, psychological aspects of physical health and health literacy. She has substantial experience of qualitative research, interviewing children, adults and older people with complex health conditions and their families.