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Irving Gold
Beginning in January of 2007, Mr. Gold will take on a new challenge. As Vice President, External Affairs for the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, he will provide health policy, government relations and communication expertise to the association. Mr. Gold is preparing to defend his PhD dissertation, a sociological analysis of the role of evidence in scientific controversies, and he holds master’s degrees in both criminology and sociology. He is the inaugural chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Obesity Network, one of five Networks of Centres of Excellence New Initiatives, and is a Visiting Scholar at the Wellesley Institute in Toronto. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Irving devotes much of his energy to his most recent projects — raising his two-and-a-half-year-old son Samuel and his nine-week-old daughter Eliana with his beautiful and brilliant wife Sara. |
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Irving Gold has been working in the area of knowledge transfer and exchange since 1999 where he was appointed to the position of ‘research transfer associate’ at the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University. In 2002 he joined the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation where he developed and launched a knowledge brokering program that now includes a national evaluation component and a network of more than 600 brokers in Canada and abroad. In 2004, he was appointed to the position of director, where he oversaw not only the knowledge brokering program but all the foundation activities aimed at ensuring that research-informed evidence gets into the hands of health system managers and policy makers. He and his team developed and implemented linkage and exchange tools that bring researchers and decision makers together and build decision-maker capacity to use research-informed evidence. 