The Health System Impact Fellowship: Perspectives From the Program Leads Comment on "CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on ‘Driving Change’ Within the Health System"

Meghan McMahon; Robyn Tamblyn

doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2019.59

Int J Health Policy Manag. 2019;8(10): 623-626.
doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2019.59

PMID: 31657192
PMCID: PMC6819624

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Commentary

The Health System Impact Fellowship: Perspectives From the Program Leads Comment on “CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on ‘Driving Change’ Within the Health System”

Meghan McMahon ^1,2^* , Robyn Tamblyn ^1,3

¹ Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Department of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

*Corresponding Author: *Correspondence to: Meghan McMahon Email:, Email: meghan.mcmahon@mail.utoronto.ca

Abstract

As the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) leads in designing and implementing the new Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship program, we congratulate Sim et al for their thoughtful contribution to the nascent literature on embedded research, and for advancing our own learning about the HSI Fellowship experience. In our commentary, we describe the HSI Fellowship and its key components, discuss the factors that motivated and inspired the creation of the program, and highlight successes thus far

Keywords: Health Services Research, Embedded Researcher, Learning Health Systems, Post-doctoral Training, Canada

Citation: McMahon M, Tamblyn R. The health system impact fellowship: perspectives from the program leads: Comment on “CIHR health system impact fellows: reflections on ‘driving change’ within the health system.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2019;8(10):623–626. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2019.59