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Directions to Students: Knowledge Translation (KT) is an important means of influencing policy outputs that are intended to improve the health of all Canadians. It does so through the use and integration of promising practices that come out of new research. What are some important considerations when preparing to conduct KT within an Indigenous context?

Please keep your answer to under 500 words and respond to a classmate's post.

Required: Estey, E., Smylie, J., Macaulay, A. (2009). Aboriginal knowledge translation: understanding and respecting the distinct needs of Aboriginal communities in research. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/documents/aboriginal_knowledge_translation_e.pdf

Required: Bharadwaj, L. (2014). A framework for building research partnerships with First Nations communities. Environmental Health Insights, 8. Pp. 15-25. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.4137/EHI.S108

Response

Traditional knowledge and Knowledge translation needs to be connected and practiced together while researchers are seeking to work with First Nations people of Canada and any other minority group that have been traumatized from research that has occurred in the past. With knowledge comes responsibility of how the knowledge is used after it is obtained. To research a community ethically and respectfully is what needs to be practiced in order to heal the harms that previous generations have done to these communities. The four R's of research needs to be practiced during the research project to help ensure that the research will be obtained and used ethically. It is also important that the researchers understand UNDRIP to ensure that the participants of their research understand their rights in regard to traditional practices. The researchers need to take the responsibility to ensure that the participants understand their rights and understand what knowledge is being used by the researchers and how they will use it this will than show respect towards the Indigenous people and build a relationship rather than a transaction between indigenous people and the scientific communities.