Irving Gold, a leader in the area of knowledge transfer and exchange since 1999 is a director of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. He is responsible for leading innovative programmes in research dissemination and knowledge exchange, as well as a suite of programmes in support of the Canadian health system's capacity to use research. He and his team are experts in developing linkage and exchange tools to bring researchers and decision makers together and to build decision-maker ability in the use of research evidence.
Mr Gold developed and launched a knowledge-brokering programme that now includes a national evaluation component and a network of more than 600 brokers in Canada and abroad. Previously he was a research transfer associate at the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University.
Mr Gold holds masters degrees in both criminology and sociology. He is a visiting scholar at
Wellesley Central in Toronto, chairman of the board of directors of the Canadian Obesity Network (a network of centres of excellence), and a member of the knowledge transfer advisory committee
of the Canadian Institute of Health Services and Policy Research.
A national opinion leader in his field, Mr Gold speaks globally about strategies for bridging the
'know-do' gap between researches and decision makers.