Dr. Sana Shahram, IHLCDP Associate and MSFHR Post-doctoral Research Fellow, shares her experiences as Embedded Health Equity Scholar at Interior Health (IH) in her recent blog. Situated in IH’s Population Health and Research portfolios, Dr. Shahram is carving out a new role as a researcher to support the implementation of research findings into system-level changes to promote health equity. What is particularly unique about her work as an Embedded Scholar is that she has the opportunity to apply her research expertise from within the systems she is investigating – closing the gap between research and practice in health systems research.