I think that's the role of knowledge mobilization and knowledge translation. I think that's where the peer-review process comes in, in terms of the sharing of the results of science and the acceptance of that high academic standard of the research that's conducted.
I know with Kids Brain Health we look at research that's leading-edge in this country around neurodevelopmental disability and how that can go forward.
We don't support research that hasn't gone through a very rigorous process. There has to be evidence and proof of principle before our organization works with a program, because what we're interested in is implementation, how you can have impact.
We know the statistic that it takes 17 years for an initial research program to get to impact. We would like to see that sped up. We work with scientists who say, “We have something here. We have a solution to a problem that's been identified. Can you help us to get this to scale and spread, working with our parents and families?”
That's what we're about. We're about enabling excellent science to make it into the community.