%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2016 %T Building Scientist Capacity in Knowledge Translation: Development of the Knowledge Translation Planning Template %A Melanie Barwick %K capacity building %K competencies %K knowledge translation %K template %K tools %X The last fifteen years have seen a fundamental shift in the importance of knowledge translation in health research and clinical care. Health research funders have incorporated knowledge translation into their missions, strategic directions, and funding opportunities, encouraging knowledge translation and implementation science and requiring knowledge translation practice from researchers working across the health research pillars – basic, clinical, health services, and population health. Healthcare and research organizations have changed their landscape as well, hiring knowledge translation practitioners to bridge research and practice for a range of knowledge users. Universities are shifting criteria for academic promotion to incorporate knowledge translation. Growing attention to knowledge translation in research, practice, and scholarship has created a need for researchers and practitioners to develop knowledge translation skills and competencies related to their research, scholarship, and organizational activities. The Knowledge Translation Planning Template was developed to support knowledge translation planning for scientists in health and other sectors. This article provides an overview of the rationale for its development, introduces the tool components, and describes preliminary indicators of impact. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 6 %P 9-15 %8 09/2016 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1015 %N 9 %1 SickKids Melanie Barwick (PhD, CPsych) is a Senior Scientist in the Child Evaluative Sciences Program of the Research Institute, and Head of the Child and Youth Mental Health Research Unit (CYMHRU) in the Department of Psychiatry at SickKids in Toronto, Canada. She is also affiliated with the SickKids’ Learning Institute where she conducts professional development in knowledge translation, and with the Centre for Global Child Health as a scientist and member of the leadership. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She chairs the Creative Professional Activity Committee for the Department of Psychiatry, and is a member of the Departmental Promotions Committee. She is an Executive Board member for AMREF Health Africa, the Children and Youth in Challenging Contexts (CCYC) Network Centre of Excellence and for the Global Implementation Initiative (GII), and she is an Associate Editor for the journal Evidence & Policy. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1015