She is one of the Directors of Cochrane Child Health, as well as Director of the Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence and the University of Alberta Evidence-based Practice Center. The focus of these centers is to gather and synthesize the best available scientific evidence to help support decision-making by healthcare providers, administrators, and patients and their families. Dr. Hartling has been involved in conducting systematic reviews and methodological research around issues in systematic reviews for over 15 years, and has published extensively in this area. She is also involved in a number of knowledge translation initiatives to disseminate high quality research to inform decisions in health. She has a specific interest in evaluating novel methods of communicating health evidence to parents, families, and children.