The national Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM) network is seeking a full-time, contract (1-year) dynamic and creative Implementation Specialist to support the development and dissemination of knowledge translation (KT) products for national projects. The network comprises five regional nodes across the country and a national Indigenous Engagement Platform. The objective of CRISM is to translate evidence-based interventions for illicit and prescription drug use into clinical practice, community-based prevention, and health system changes. The network conducts substance use intervention research, including community-based primary and secondary prevention, as well as randomized pharmacotherapy and psychosocial trials with collaborating treatment programs and is well positioned to do so as it is modeled after the US National Institute of Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network. Similar to the NIH network, CRISM is a national consortium of academic researchers, service-providers, consumers, and policy-makers (additional information on CRISM available here: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/44597.html).
This specialist position is full-time and will work with CRISM’s National Coordinating Center, playing a key role in ensuring that CRISM’s research findings are accessible, engaging, and impactful across stakeholder audiences at a national scale. These stakeholders include clinicians, policymakers, researchers, and people with lived and living experience of substance use.
