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APOGEE-Net was created in 2003 with funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to support policy making in the area of genetics. APOGEE-Net was a knowledge network involving 34 people from different domains: researchers from various disciplines from five Canadian universities, researchers from institutions with a mandate to assist decision-making and promote knowledge transfer, representatives from governmental bodies involved in policy making in genetics, and four citizens. Researchers (2003-2009): Renaldo N. Battista, Universit de Montréal, Director of APOGEE-Net Ingeborg Blanquaert, Agence d'évaluation des technologies et des modes d'interventions en sant Ghislaine Cleret de Langavant, bureau du Commissaire la sant et au bien-être William Foulkes, McGill University Daniel Gaudet, Universit de Montréal Béatrice Godard, Universit de Montréal Nathalie Laflamme, formely from the National Public Health Institute of Quebec Anne Marcoux, Commissaire la sant et au bien-être François Rousseau, Universit Laval Contributors: Michel Boucher, citizen Andr Brodeur, citizen Lola Cartier, genetic counsellor, McGill University David Elliott, Department of Health, Nova Scotia Tom Fetter, Department of Health and Wellness, New Brunswick Jean-Claude Forest, Universit Laval Ren Gingras, citizen Richard Gold, McGill University Pascale Hamet, citizen Pavel Hamet, Universit de Montréal Thomas Hudson, formely from McGill University Robert Jacob (INSPQ) Andy Kennedy, Direction de sant publique, Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean Bartha Knoppers, Universit de Montréal Claude Laberge, Universit Laval Marie-Christine Lamarche, ministère de la Sant et des Services Sociaux, Québec Nadine McLean, Provincial Department of Health, Prince Edward Island Joy Maddigan, Health and Community Services, Newfoundland & Labrador Government Hélène Morais, formely from the Conseil de la sant et du bien-être Denis Ouellet, ministère de la Sant et des Services Sociaux, Québec Daryl Pullman, Memorial University, Newfoundland David Rosenblat, medical geneticist, McGill University Jacques Simard, Universit Laval Partners: Pierre Charest, Health Canada Lynn Mainland, Health Canada The network was unique in actively involving decision-makers and in the special role played by organizations with an institutional knowledge-transfer function. This network was conceived as an experiment in knowledge translation aimed at creating the necessary conditions, in terms of exchange and convergence of ideas, to promote policy-relevant transdisciplinary research and to foster utilisation of such research. The group's scientific activities centered around three broad research themes: genetics and health services, genetics and public health and genetics and public involvement. Research priorities within these domains were set collectively and gradually refined to yield policy relevant research projects and stimulate the creation of multidisciplinary teams and complementarity among research endeavours. Besides its knowledge transfer and receptor capacity-building objectives, the network also set out to build research capacity and to train a new generation of individuals willing to contribute to the development of evidence-based health policies in the field of genetics. |
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