TABLE 4.

Stakeholder perspectives within two Canadian IMPACT local partnerships

Stakeholder group	Primary Care Connection Partnership (PCCP)	Community Health Resources Partnership (CHRP)	Perspective
Medical practitioners	X	X	Clinical perspective, with one CHRP physician's practice being an incubator for the navigator model.
Decision makers and health planners	X	X	Bridge between researchers and policy‐making, ensuring that research activities aligned with and responded to health policy priorities and capabilities and, conversely, that health authorities were aware of research insights relevant to the project.
Academic investigators	X	X	Research knowledge and skills, including: organization of the research process; data gathering, analysis, and synthesis of information of relevance to the partnership; interface with funding bodies and larger IMPACT program.
Research coordinators	X	X	Coordination of partnership activities, group process facilitation.
Anglophone and francophone patient partners		X	The lived experience point of view, including insights regarding specific barriers experienced on the basis of languages spoken.
Community organization representative	X		Insights into the challenges experienced by the target populations.
Community service organizations		X	Information on available community services, ensuring that the research was grounded in reality: that project activities were aligned with the priorities and capabilities of these organizations.

Abbreviation: IMPACT—Innovative Models Promoting Access‐to‐Care Transformation.