Dr Jon Salsberg

Associate Professor of Primary Healthcare – Public and Patient Involvement, School of Medicine.

Jon Salsberg is Associate Professor of Primary Health Care Research – Public and Patient Involvement, in the School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Ireland, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Canada. He is Course Director for the UL School of Medicine’s Professional Diploma in Public & Patient Involvement. Jon is a public health researcher with a background in health promotion and the anthropology of development. His research interests are in understanding the social-relational dimensions of research partnerships, and how research ownership moves from academia to community. Jon is co-author of Canada’s Guide to Researcher and Knowledge-User Collaboration in Health Research, was a founding member of Participatory Research at McGill (PRAM), McGill University, Montreal, Canada, was inaugural Co-Chair of NAPCRG’s Participatory Health Research Working Group , and is on the executive committee of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research.

Jon has 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.