Less poverty, not more medicine, will heal Canada's health woes: O'Brien Institute guest André Picard 

Globe and Mail health reporter André Picard reflected on three decades of covering Canadian health care at O'Brien Institute co-hosted launch for his new book, Matters of Life and Death: Public Health Issues in Canada, in Calgary recently. 


News
Announcements
Declare Alberta fentanyl health emergency now, says B.C. advocate
Calgary Herald

CIHR Alberta Indigenous Mentorship in Health Innovation results
Alberta Liberal Leader and Institute member Dr. David Swann has been vocal in his calls for the government to declare an emergency.
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Congratulations to Cheryl Barnabe, Bonnie Healy, Lindsay Crowshoe, Rita Henderson, Andrea Kennedy, Susan Kutz, and Melanie Rock on their successful application to CIHR for the Alberta Indigenous Mentorship in Health Innovation (AIM-HI Network). 
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The global challenge of antimicrobial resistance
Policy Options
 

Kidney Foundation of Canada Medal for Research Excellence
Susan Cork and Sylvia Checkley discuss the use of antimicrobial agents in humans, animals and crops that has contributed to the global problem of antimicrobial resistance.
Dr. Braden Manns and Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn were jointly awarded the Kidney Foundation of Canada Medal for Research Excellence for 2017.


University of Calgary in Qatar researcher leads important mental health study
Thomson Reuters Zawya



CIHR Project Scheme results
Study will be a big help in identifying impact of mental illness on the community and begin to identify ways to reducing stigma:  Dr. Deborah White , Dean and CEO, University of Calgary in Qatar, and Institute member. 

Congratulations to Gavin McCormack on his successful application for, "Temporal relations between neighbourhood walkability and walking for different purposes in Canadian adults: A longitudinal residential relocation study."


Good Reads
Funding Opportunities
Alberta government creates new commission to combat opioid crisis

Here's how to handle vaccine doubters: 
Don't fight

HPV vaccine for men may cut oral infection risk: study

Opioid crisis: Listen to the big-city mayors

Kids who aren't vaccinated stigmatized 
more than their parents: study

ICS Planning and Dissemination Grants

CIHR-IHSPR will provide applications funding for dissemination activities that are determined to be relevant to the following strategic research areas:

* Healthy aging in the community
* Innovations in healthcare financing and funding (including international comparisons)
* eHealth Innovations
* Learning health systems

Anticipated launch: July 11, 2017

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grant: "Developing the Future of Libraries"

LOI deadline - June 30, 2017
More info

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants

NOI deadline - August 1, 2017
More info

NSERC will be hosting a number of webinars in anticipation of the Fall 2017 Discovery Grant and Research Tools and Instruments competitions. See schedule here.


  Events
Book Club
O'Brien Institute International Scientific Advisory Group Welcome Lunch
O'Brien Institute Mentorship & Leadership Book Club
When: June 2, 2017
Where: HRIC atrium, Foothills campus


Do you want to become a better leader? Do you love to read? Are you interested in some summer reading?

The O'Brien Institute for Public Health Mentorship & Leadership Portfolio invite you to join our inaugural book club!
Lunch with Evelyne de Leeuw - Healthy 
Cities - how will we know if we are making 
a difference?
Our first book will be: 
When: June 5, 2017
Where: Theatre One, Health Sciences Centre, Foothills Campus

The Leadership Challenge is an international best seller that serves as a guide for effective leadership, backed by research and written by the key experts in the field. 


Canadian Institutes of Health Research 
(CIHR) Meet the President
We will be offering the opportunity to join our book club three times a year with our first book being offered in June 2017, with a book club meeting in September 2017.
When: June 7, 2017
Where: Theatre 4, Health Sciences Centre,
Foothills campus
Books for Institute members will be provided with complimentary copies courtesy of the O'Brien Institute. The Department of Community Health Sciences will kindly be providing a minimum number of copies for our doctoral students.

If you are interested, please e-mail: Marie-Claude Proulx.

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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 realizing 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.