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PI: Schummers, Laura
In Canada, longstanding inadequate and inequitable access to reproductive health services has limited the ability for women to optimally time and space pregnancies - a key reproductive population hea…
PI: Karanicolas, Paul J; Abou Khalil, Jad; Smith, David E; Tsang, Melanie E; Mason, Stephanie
A surgical site infection (SSI) is an infection that occurs after a surgical procedure. Despite a variety of infection prevention strategies, SSIs still occur often and impose a significant burden on…
PI: Bourbeau, Jean; Anderson, David R; Batist, Gerald; Bell, Emily C; Benoit, Britney L; Collister, David; Dasgupta, Kaberi; Fahim, Christine; Fergusson, Dean A; Filion, Kristian B; Gahagan, Jacqueline C; Goos, Lisa; Khan, Nadia A; King, Malcolm; Li, Linda C; Mitra, Souvik; Morin, Suzanne N; Pilote, Louise; Reiman, Tony; Richer, Lawrence P; Saleh, Ramy R; Sapp, John L; Tomblin Murphy, Gail G; Yeh, Ann E.
COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance for Canada to have the capacity to run large clinical trials and no longer be only reactive but responsive in leading with increase capacity and quali…
PI: Iyer, Srividya N; Macé, Christian; Goyette, Martin
Youth is a period of promise. It is also when mental health and substance use problems often emerge. Yet only few youths have access to quality care. They often face long wait-times; complicated path…
PI: Mushquash, Christopher J; Ballantyne, Clifford T; Rudderham, Heather M; Iyer, Srividya N
A gap within implementation science research is that health research and policies largely focus on modifying or adapting current approaches rather than designing, developing, and implementing context…
PI: Ellis, Janet W; Sinyor, Mark
There is an urgent need to create and apply targeted interventions for at-risk public safety personnel (PSP) to address the increased prevalence of post-traumatic stress and suicidal behaviours among…
People with dementia and their informal carers who live at home have experienced significant negative impacts of COVID-19 control measures (e.g. social restrictions, reallocation of resources) and th…
PI: Wine, Osnat
My academic journey focuses on improving connections between science and the practice and policy that might arise from the research. I study how teams of university researchers, decision makers, and …
PI: Nagpal, Taniya S
Obesity is a complex chronic disease with several different causal factors that could be physical (e.g., genetics), environmental (e.g., access to healthy foods), and social (e.g., relationships and …
In many First Nations, women are clan mothers, carry medicines and provide midwifery care. Colonialism has targeted Indigenous women and Indigenous family structures. In 2018, Saskatchewan's rate of …
PI: McCabe, Erin
The global pandemic has made it clear that there is an urgent need for high-quality mental health services for children and youth. However, the voices of children, youth, and their families are large…
In Alberta, 19% of people smoke cigarettes, 28% drink alcohol excessively, and 70% are physically inactive. These modifiable behaviours can lead to chronic diseases, like cancer, heart, respiratory, …
Co-Developing a Transitions in Care Bundle for Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Caregivers
PI: Khan, Faizan
In Canada's healthcare system, the transfer of critically ill patients from the intensive care unit (ICU) to another part of the hospital or back home is among the most challenging, high risk, and in…
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common chronic condition without a known cure. IBS patients struggle to manage their symptoms even with the medical interventions available. Also, these patients o…
Background: In the last 2 decades, levels of hypertension awareness and control in Canada were the highest in the world, however, recent data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey indicate a distu…
In 2021, Canadian Blood Services, Canada's national blood operator outside of Quebec, took meaningful steps to reduce the blood donation restrictions on gay, bisexual and all men who have sex with me…
Two-thirds of people living with dementia in the community are supported by their caregivers. Healthcare services consistently fail to provide appropriate support for caregivers. In Canada, many prov…
PI: Raza, Sarah
Autism is the most common and fastest growing neurodevelopmental condition in Canada. Early diagnosis is critical to promote access to interventions and supports to help children reach their fullest …
PI: Petrie, Samuel
Medly is an electronic health program which can help patients and providers better manage heart failure. Heart failure is an extremely costly disease, both to patients and health systems. Part of hea…
PI: Ouyang, Yongdong
Over the last several decades, innovative technologies have resulted in astonishing breakthroughs in healthcare that enhance patient outcomes and our healthcare system. The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) is d…
People with visual impairments (blind or low vision) remain under-represented in the fields of health and science, due to barriers that prevent full participation, including disability-related stigma…
TRANSFORM HF, a strategic initiative of the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, aims to empower collaboration and patient-driven equitable care. To leverage this priority, three core projects will …
IWK Health aspires to transform care through fully integrated, internationally recognized research, teaching, and care. IWK Health's impact goal is to advance the science of learning health systems b…
PI: Myge, Ivy
There has been a longstanding call for long-term care (LTC) to use models of care that are more person-centered. However, the disruptions that occurred in LTC as a result of restricted family and vol…
PI: Leung, Bonnie C
Patients who have language barriers have difficulty getting timely access to health care. They may not be able to recognize signs and symptoms of an emergent health condition or explain their symptom…
It has become increasingly common that aging members of our population require healthcare services to support them. Many Canadians spend their final years in long-term care (LTC) facilities as a resu…
PI: Borle, Kennedy
Many types of healthcare professionals are legally regulated, meaning there are specific legal rules about the types of healthcare activities that they can do. This is to protect patients and the pub…
PI: TAMBA, Orphee L
Connecting Policy Making, Health Care Delivery, and Population Research to Address Early Years Health Inequities in British Columbia The early years are a critical time when physical and social devel…
PI: Shin, Hwayeon
BACKGROUND: Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death among youth and young adults in Canada. One best practice for suicide prevention is Safety Planning Intervention (SPI), a collaborat…
En décembre 2021, le CIUSSS-ODIM s'est doté de lignes directrices sur les banques de données et/ou de matériel biologique (Banques) à des fins de recherche. Ces lignes directrices sont fondées sur le…
L'engagement accru des patients lors de leur parcours de soins de santé et de services apporte de nombreux bénéfices, tant pour les patients que pour les professionnels de la santé et la société. Pou…
Poor mental health is the number one healthcare issue facing young Canadians, yet evidence shows that young people's needs are not being met within existing systems. A new Centre for Youth Mental Hea…
Spread and scale of innovative health programs to improve care for children and their families
PI: Ladak, Zeenat
This fellowship is supported by the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) where the Fellow is pursuing their PhD, and the health system organization, WIHV (Women's College Hospital Institu…
Each year, 70,000 patients are harmed in hospital, despite decades of trying to make the healthcare system safer for them. This harm is not intentional and can be a result of miscommunication between…
An accurate, equitable estimation of pre-transplant mortality is an essential component of fairly prioritizing patients for liver transplant. For the past 20 years, transplant centers in the United S…
Access to medicines is a major global health issue, with nearly two billion people lacking access to essential medicines. In recent years, the need for uninterrupted medicines availability and covera…
PI: Heykoop, Cheryl
In Canada, approximately 7,600 adolescents and young adults (AYAs) aged 15 to 39 are diagnosed with cancer each year. Currently, cancer care systems have limited capacity to meet the complex needs of…
PI: Gill, Peter J; Li, Patricia T; Mahant, Sanjay; To, Teresa
Hospital care consumes the largest component of healthcare costs in Canada. Despite the high costs, there is a lack of high-quality research evidence on the diagnosis and treatment of hospitalized ch…
PI: Tang, Karen L; Teare, Gary F
Differences in socioeconomic position (SEP) lead to unfair differences in health across social groups. This is known as health inequity. Despite the importance of SEP on health, this information is n…
Family engagement is a care approach where family members are considered essential and active partners in care and are provided opportunities to participate in their loved one's care. Engaging famili…
PI: Campbell, David J; Donald, Maoliosa (Mo); James, Matthew T; Manns, Braden J; Pannu, Neesh I; Tsuyuki, Ross T
People with conditions like diabetes, kidney disease, and heart disease take medications that protect them from complications; yet, these same medications may be harmful during times of illness (such…
PI: Fergusson, Dean A; Lalu, Manoj M
Opioids are widely used during surgery as a part of general anaesthesia. In addition to short-term side effects such as nausea and dizziness, the use of opioids can also lead to long term opioid-depe…
PI: Alibhai, Shabbir M; Emmenegger, Urban; Puts, Maria (Martine) T
Challenge: Androgen receptor axis-targeted agents (ARATs) such as abiraterone and enzalutamide are now often used to treat metastatic prostate cancer (mPC). They improve survival but cause substantia…
PI: Beall, Reed; Baral, Stefan D; Janjua, Naveed Z; Katz, Alan; Maheu-Giroux, Mathieu; Mishra, Sharmistha; Williamson, Tyler
The introduction of new health innovations that bring substantial health benefits for those who receive them, such as vaccines against COVID-19, is very challenging. Challenges can include unequal ac…
PI: Razak, Fahad; Baker, Andrew J; Chan, Timothy; Gibson, Jennifer; Leung, Elizabeth; Mamdani, Muhammad; Morris, Andrew M; Pai, Menaka; Rosella, Laura C; Sarhangian, Vahid; Siddiqi, Arjumand; Verma, Amol
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an urgent need for effective therapeutics to treat hospitalized patients with severe infections. In less than two years, new drugs were developed and existing medica…
PI: Brignardello Petersen, Romina Andrea; Guyatt, Gordon H
After the COVID-19 pandemic started, researchers focused on assessing treatments for this disease. Global and local authorities (such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Public Health Agen…
PI: Khalil, Elias; Ravi, Bheeshma; Whyne, Cari M
The efficient management of patients requiring orthopaedic surgery in Canada is of utmost importance to the timely delivery of quality care and to maintain reasonable cost in a public healthcare syst…
PI: Blackburn, David F; King, Alexandra
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was once considered a terminal disease before the development of antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART prevents HIV from replicating and destroying blood cells responsi…
PI: Sarma, Sisira K
Stronger primary health care systems are associated with better health outcomes compared to those with weaker systems. Reforms introduced worldwide to address better access to primary care, preventiv…
PI: MacFadden, Derek R; Daneman, Nick
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time. Antibiotic use is thought to be a major driver of antibiotic resistance. However, as antibiotic resistance increases…