Person-centred health care in Alberta: From rhetoric to reality

Forum brings the importance of adopting a person- and family-centred care model to the forefront, with engaging presentations and discussion between patients, community members, health-care providers, and administrators, including Alberta Health Services CEO Dr. Verna Yiu.


News
Announcements

Opinion: Time to recognize opioid crisis as a public health emergency
Edmonton Journal 


Transforming the role of academic libraries in multidisciplinary research
As a critical care physician, Dr. Christopher Doig 
is increasingly called upon to admit young Albertans in life-threatening conditions 
following cardiac arrest from opioid overdose.

Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to allow university library to play enhanced role in faculty research by offering leading-edge technologies, collaboration spaces, and new designs in research services.

Vet Med researchers explain One Health concept in their new case studies book
UToday
 

Call for presenters: Engagement in East Africa Symposium
Institute members, and Veterinary Medicine researchers, Susan Cork, David Hall and Billie Thurston put One Health into context.
Submit research proposal or poster by April 10, 2017, for this April 26 symposium.

We should compensate living donors for their kidney
Healthy Debate 


New program makes data storage easier for researchers
Should we compensate kidney donors? Institute member Braden Manns weighs in.

The Cumming School of Medicine has introduced a new Secure Computing Program that allows researchers to store up to 10 gigabytes of data (per project) free of charge


Good Reads
Funding Opportunities
A doctor discovers an important question patients should be asked

Why tuberculosis is a public health concern

Heat and health: Doctors taking the pulse of the planet on climate change

Vaccinations significantly reduce risk of 
death from the flu, CDC study finds

Pertussis vaccine In pregnancy protects 9 
of 10 newborns from whooping cough

CIHR Operating Grant: SPOR - Guidelines and Systematic Reviews

Application deadline - May 12, 2017

CIHR Team Grant: Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI)

Application deadline - June 13, 2017
More info

Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (CCSRI) Quality of Life Research Grant

LOI deadline - May 11, 2017


  Events
Seminars

Cannabis Legalization in Canada: Implications for Public Health in Alberta
Type and Proximity of Green Spaces are Important for Preventing Cardiovascular
Morbidity and Diabetes
When: May 5
Where:  University of Calgary's Downtown Campus 

Roland Ngom, April 7
More info

The Annual GRIP (Group for Research with Indigenous Peoples) Research Forum: Urban Indigenous Health

O'Brien Institute for Public Health / 
Community Health Sciences Seminar Series
When: May 9
Where: Theatre 1, Health Sciences Centre,
Foothills Campus
Speaker Giving a Talk at Business Meeting. Audience in the conference hall. Business and Entrepreneurship.
Charles E. Matthews, April 21


Matters of Life and Death: Public Health Issues in Canada - book launch with AndrĂ© Picard

O'Brien Institute for Public Health / 
Community Health Sciences Seminar Series
When: May 17
Where: TBA
More info
Speaker Giving a Talk at Business Meeting. Audience in the conference hall. Business and Entrepreneurship.
NSERC Panel, April 28

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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.