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Centre Léa Roback Marie-France Raynault 29 mai 2006 1

From research to policy:the Lea Roback centre example

Marie-France Raynault

The Lea Roback Research Centre

on Social Inequalities in Health of MontrealMay 29 2006


Health and Social Inequalities in Montreal

From : Direction de sante publique de Montreal Website


Lea Roback: 1903-2000


Research program

• How do social inequalities become health inequalities?

• How can we reduce social health inequalities?

• How can we diminish the impact of social inequalities on health?

• How can we reduce the impact of health problems on social inequalities?


Montréal, an important setting for learning


How can decision makers help in reducing health inequalities?

• Promotion of physical activityActivity-friendlinessSafetyDensity of destinations

• Clean airPublic transportationGreen roofs


Activity friendlinessActivity friendliness

Dynamique


Other examples

• Access to healthy foodLocal marketsCollective gardens

• Building social capital Open vs gated communitiesThe Montreal triplex

• Etc


Social mix


Dialog with decision makers: from classic to innovative

• Visiteurs de passage

• Projets d’avenir

• Recherche en actions

• Comprendre Montréal


Visiteurs de passage

• Objective: get a flow of ideas• Classic conferences• Open to researchers and decision makers• Fueled by research networks• Presenting hot evidence• 45 minutes of conference• 45 minutes of discussion• At lunch time• Always at the same place


Projets d’avenir

• Objective: bonify research projects and facilitate the buying-in of results

• Seed money offered to researchers by the center for developing research projects

• Condition: present work-in-progress to desion makers and take into account their comments

• Decision makers chosen on the basis of the subject• Format: 2-3 hours during the day always at the DSP


Recherche en actions

• Objective: strive for a policy or an intervention

• Researcher presents the status of things with respect to the problem

• Decision makers from different areas targeted with respect to the subject and interested in intervention

• Example: nutritional security perimeter


Comprendre Montréal

• Objective: offer decision makers a priviledged opportunity for discussion with a researcher

• Format: breafast offered by the center to 12 high level decision makers (Centraide, Director of social development, of environment, etc)

• Presentation without PPT for 20 minutes: what we know and what we are looking for

• At least one hour of discussion • Example: Montréal, une ville qui marche


Conditions for success

• Tight link with one decision maker, the DSP• Communication specialist and PR exclusively

at the service of the CLR• Incentives for researchers: seed money,

priviledged access to decision makers• Incentives for decision makers: closely related

to their work and beneficial to their areas of concern

• Requires minimum time from the researchers


Qualitative evaluation from decision makers

• Space for thought

• Importance of follow-up

• Indicators: call-backs, eagerness for future appointments, etc


Conclusions drawn from our experience

• A multifaceted communication strategy

• A specialized PR professional instead of a research professional

• Researchers mobilized for a limited time and only to use their scientific expertise

• Decision makers need a space for reflexion and discussion with their peers


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