Jonathan Salsberg

Biography

  Jon Salsberg has fifteen years of experience working in community and academic participatory research, as well as integrated knowledge translation. Jon is a qualitative researcher with a background in public health promotion and the anthropology of development, with research interests in understanding the theory and practice of multi-stakeholder engagement for co-creating new knowledge, products or procedures and their translation into action, principally in primary health care, community health and preventive medicine. He is co-author of CIHRs Guide to Researcher and Knowledge-User Collaboration in Health Research, was on the faculty of the 2008 CIHR Summer Institute for KT Science, and is co-author of the highly rated systematic realist review uncovering the benefits of participatory research in health (Milbank Q, 90(2) 2012). Jon has undertaken partnered research involving a broad range of stakeholders including patients, health practitioners, community members and organisations, policy makers and health service decision-makers, and has worked with both northern and southern Indigenous communities. Jon teaches introductory and advanced participatory research in health, in the McGill University Faculty of Medicine. Jon is a member of NAPCRG/STFM’s Committee on Advancing the Science of Family Medicine, and Co-Chair (Canada) of its Participatory Research in Primary Care Working Group (CASFM-PRPC). Jon is also Chair of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network’s Community-Based Research and Evaluation Review Committee (OHTN)      

Research Interest

PParticipatory research; community-based research; patient engagement; integrated knowledge translation; Indigenous health; primary care research; evaluation in health promotion; realist synthesis; social network analysis; research informatics.