Under the supervision of France Légaré and Ron Beleno, Ali Ben Charif obtained funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) for his project entitled "Patient-oriented scale up and spread for enhanced patient-centred care".

The project aims to build patient-oriented research capacity in the science and practice of scaling up by ensuring that patients and other stakeholders, including the public, clinicians, managers and policy makers, are effectively and meaningfully engaged.