Kerman University of Medical Sciences International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2322-5939 12 Issue 1 2023 12 01 Translating, Contexting, and Institutionalising Knowledge Translation Practices in Northern Australia: Some Reflections; Comment on “Sustaining Knowledge Translation Practices: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis” 1 4 4431 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.7587 EN Alexandra Edelman College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia 0000-0002-2021-5266 Stephanie M. Topp College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia 0000-0002-3448-7983 Journal Article 2022 08 01 In this commentary, we reflect on how the three processes of translating, contexting, and institutionalising knowledge translation (KT) practices, as introduced in a critical interpretive synthesis on sustaining KT, might be drawn on to improve KT sustainability in the northern Australian health system, and some likely challenges. The synthesis provides a useful reminder that health systems are social systems and offers an analytical framework against which to map approaches that aim to align knowledge production and utilisation. By positioning “places” of knowledge utilisation and actor roles and networks as key to KT sustainability, the framework also offers the potential to draw attention to non-clinical settings, actors, and relationships that are central to improving health, but that may be historically neglected in KT research and scholarship.

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