Developing capacity around knowledge translation: A marriage of action and mindset

The burden of mental illness is having an increasingly significant impact on health globally with the cost estimated to be $2.5 trillion in 2010 and by 2030, it is projected to increase to $6 trillion (Marquez & Saxena, 2016). However, the unfortunate truth is that a majority of people living with mental ill-health receive limited effective treatment (Cleary et al., 2019; Patel & Thornicroft, 2009; Prince et al., 2007). Effective treatment is the progeny created from the integration of research and evidence into clinical practice (Elledge et al., 2019) to facilitate evidence-based best practice health care (Grimshaw et al., 2012).