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O'Brien Institute Awards

Nominations are now open for the third annual O'Brien Institute Awards, and this year we are announcing two new categories. Four categories of award are available to consider, for nomination of yourself or your O'Brien Institute colleagues.


News
Announcements

Alberta's stroke treatment wait-time improvement tops in the world, says AHS
Calgary Herald



CIHR Catalyst Grant
Physicians, including Dr. Michael Hill, have made Alberta international leaders in reducing stroke treatment times, say medical officials.
Read more ,  CBC , Global , 660 News , UToday

Eldon Spackman has received a CIHR catalyst grant for his project "Estimating the cost-effectiveness threshold for cancer care in Alberta."  

Minor hockey body-checking ban has leads 
to fewer injuries
Globe and Mail
 


CIHR Catalyst Grant 
Institute members Carolyn Emery,  Brent Hagel, and  Alberto Nettel-Aguirre to present their findings at an International Olympic Committee world conference in Monaco.
Institute members Ann Toohey and David Hogan were among the co-applicants who received a CIHR Catalyst Grant: Analysis of CLSA Data for "A tale of eight cities, age-friendliness, and the CLSA". 


How universities are working to shatter the ivory tower
MacLeans

CIHR Personalized Medicine in Inflammation Network Grant Funding
Tanvir Chowdhury Turin is working with ethnic communities on research topics of relevance to them, and improving the health system in the process.

Deborah Marshall was a co-applicant on "UCAN CAN-DU: Canada-Netherlands Personalized Medicine Network in Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatic Disease," which has been selected as the (only) successful winner of the CIHR Personalized Medicine in Inflammation Network.


Good Reads
Funding Opportunities
Why tuberculosis is a public health concern

3 arguments against vaccinations and 
why they don't make sense

Budget 2017: Alberta's health spending 
still soaring despite efforts at restraint

Why everyone needs to take care of 
their mental health

Doctors warn climate change threatens 
public health

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) call for research proposals on mental health

Proposal deadline - April 11, 2017

2017 Strategic Investment Program (SIP) Accelerator Funding: AGE-WELL

Internal deadline - April 26, 2017
More info

CIHR Project Grant: Overview

Spring 2017 competition: Application deadline - June 13, 2017

Subsequent competition: Application deadline before the end of 2017, with a funding start date of April 1, 2018
 More info


  Events
Seminars

Emergency Medicine Research Day - 2017
Environmental Health and Interstitial Lung Disease: A Venn Diagram of Opportunity
When: April 13
Where:  ACH Amphitheatre, Alberta Children's Hospital

Kerri Johannson, March 24
More info


2017 Reverse Trade Show - Finding Solutions to Unmet Clinical Challenges for Seniors 
O'Brien Institute for Public Health / 
Community Health Sciences Seminar Series
When: May 2
Where: MacEwan Ballroom,
University of Calgary
Speaker Giving a Talk at Business Meeting. Audience in the conference hall. Business and Entrepreneurship.
Nishan Sharma, Jennifer Hatfield  March 31


Campus Alberta annual Provincial Forum: Health Outcomes and Public Health

O'Brien Institute for Public Health / 
Community Health Sciences Seminar Series
When: May 16
Where: Telus Centre, Edmonton
More info
Speaker Giving a Talk at Business Meeting. Audience in the conference hall. Business and Entrepreneurship.
Roland Ngom, April 7

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The O'Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary supports excellence in population health and health services research, while striving to realize the benefits of such research by using that knowledge to inform community, policy and health practice stakeholders.

The Institute's membership includes more than 450 multidisciplinary researchers from 13 Cumming School of Medicine departments and nine other University of Calgary faculties, such as Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, Kinesiology and Arts; health professionals in Alberta Health Services, and; research users and policy makers from municipal and provincial institutions. As an Institute, we share a vision of "Better health and health care" reflecting our two priority research areas of Improved Population Health and Enhanced Health Systems Performance.

The Institute's success in brokering broader external relationships, with provincial and national interest groups, policy makers, research agencies, the media, philanthropists, and community stakeholders, further extends the reach and impact of our members' significant research outputs.