Application of scientific knowledge: knowledge translation in an institute of science and technology in public health

Knowledge translation (KT) aims at the practical use of scientific research results and at the moni-toring of the benefits caused to the population's health. In health, the government and especially society expect that investments in research will produce results that go beyond the production and publication of knowledge, provoking outcomes such as public policies, systems, products, and technologies to benefit the health of the popula-tion. However, closing the gaps between research and application requires overcoming a number of challenges. This study aimed to propose strategies to foster the process of transforming the scientific knowledge generated in research into actions and products that contribute to improving the popula-tion's health based on the identification of barri -ers and facilitating factors of a health science and technology institute. The reports of interviews conducted with 16 researchers showed 10 catego-ries of barriers, especially: "limited funding to the science and technology institute" and insufficient technical support for knowledge translation". "In-frastructure and institutional support" was the facilitating factor category participants mentioned the most. Finally, we developed the artifact "strat-egies and approaches for overcoming barriers to implement research results". Among the strategies, we suggest the inclusion of a knowledge transla-tion discipline in stricto sensu graduate programs and the creation of an instance in the organiza-tional structure of the science and technology in-stitute to technically and managerially support the application of research results.