Ian Graham is Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Distinguished University Professor in the School of Epidemiology & Public Health at the University of Ottawa. He is an Honorary Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Deakin University. From 2006-2012 he was on an interchange with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research where he held the position of Vice-President of the Knowledge Translation and Public Outreach. 

Graham's research focuses on knowledge translation (the process of research use) and conducting applied research on strategies to increase implementation of evidence-informed practice. He has published over 400 peer reviewed articles and developed multiple frameworks and models such as the Ottawa Model of Research Use, ADAPTE, Knowledge to Action Cycle and the Implementation Roadmap. He is co-editor of Knowledge Translation in Health Care (2013, 2nd edition); Evaluating the Impact of Implementing Evidence-based Practice (2010);  CAN-IMPLEMENT©: Planning for Best-Practice Implementation (2014); and Turning Knowledge into Action: Practical Guidance on How to Do Integrated Knowledge Translation Research (2104); Research Coproduction in Healthcare (2022) and co-author of Knowledge Translation in Nursing and Healthcare. A Roadmap to Evidence-informed Practice (2021). 

Dr. Graham was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his “leadership contributions to CIHR and for changing the way research knowledge is used and demonstrating to funding agencies around the world how to move knowledge into action.” He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, New York Academy of Medicing and Royal Society of Canada.

Graham obtained a Ph.D. in medical sociology from McGill University.