Dr Jon Salsberg

Jon Salsberg is University of Limerick Lead for the PPI Ignite Network. He is co-leading with UCC on work package 2 – embedding PPI in undergraduate and postgraduate education.

Jon has over 15 years of experience working in community and academic participatory health research and integrated knowledge translation. He is Senior Lecturer in Primary Healthcare – Public and Patient Involvement at the School of Medicine in UL. His research interests are in understanding the theory and practice of multi-stakeholder engagement for co-creating new knowledge and its translation into action, principally in primary care and community health. His recent focus has been in using a social network approach in understanding how community stakeholders take ownership over academic research. He was a founding member of the Centre for Participatory Research at McGill University and is an executive committee member of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research.