I am currently CASFM Co-Chair for the Participatory Health Research Working Group. My day job is Senior Lecturer in Primary Health Care Research – Public and Patient Involvement, at the Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Ireland. I am a public health researcher with a background in health promotion and the anthropology of development. My research interests are in understanding the theory and practice of multi-stakeholder engagement for the co-creation and translation of new knowledge in primary care and community health. I am co-author of Canada’s Guide to Researcher and Knowledge-User Collaboration in Health Research (http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/44954.html), was a founding member of Participatory Research at McGill (PRAM), McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and am on the executive committee of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (http://icphr.org). I have undertaken partnered research involving a broad range of stakeholders including patients, health practitioners, community organisations, policy makers and health service decision-makers, and has worked extensively with Indigenous communities, particularly the award-winning Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project (http://www.ksdpp.org).