Tragic health-care journey now a teaching tool for med students
The tragic health-care journey of Greg Price is the inspiration for a film that is now a teaching tool and the centrepiece of discussion around health care at a public event co-hosted by the O'Brien Institute for Public Health. Read more
 
 
In The News
Announcements
Hardcastle: Alberta must do more to protect patients from abuse Edmonton Journal

Call for abstracts: Drugs, policy and practice in Canada
   

     
The Alberta government should consider reforms to better protect patients from abuse by health professionals, writes Lorian Hardcastle. Read more
 
Stimulus 2018 is hosting their national conference on drugs and drug policy this October in Edmonton. Read more about submission criteria  here.
Calgary exhibit captures snapshots of living with depression  Star Metro Calgary

Looking for best practices around project management?
     

     
Andrew Bulloch hopes the exhibit, Visualizing a Way Through, sparks meaningful conversations about mental health. Read more
 
This UCalgary session integrates a project management structure into research projects, and will introduce tools and techniques to manage the work. Register here
1.3M Canadians could benefit from lowered blood pressure targets: Study CBC

O'Brien Institute member the first recipient of Alberta Medical Foundation project grant
     

     
A study led by Alex Leung found the new systolic blood pressure target would impact more than a million Canadians and reduce the rate of heart disease.  Read more
 
Frank Stahnisch and his team will use the grant to support the research and planning of a new hub called C-STEMS.  Learn more
 
 

Good Reads
Funding Opportunities
Why Ebola keeps coming back BBC

The new global plan to eliminate the most harmful fat in food, explained Vox

For six decades, 'the man with the golden arm' donated blood - and saved 2.4 million babies
 
The burnout crisis in American medicine The Atlantic

What is Canada like for a refugee? The Guardian


[Operating Grant] Antimicrobial Resistance: Point of Care Diagnostics in Human Health - Phase 2
Application deadline: August 13
 
Alberta Innovates: Strategic Networking & Development
Proposals are accepted at any time and are reviewed regularly
 
O'Brien Institute Postdoctoral Scholarship
More info




 
 

Events
Friday Seminar
Series
Living and dying on the streets: Working together to do better

No seminar in lieu of May Long Weekend
     

     
What: A Street CCRED networking event
When: May 17
Where: G384 Health Sciences Centre

 
Looking for something to do? Consider one of these 25 day trips from Calgary.  Read more
Welfare regimes, population health and health inequities

Ask Me Anything: In Conversation With Qualitative Researchers
     

     
What: Public Health Journal Club
When: May 18, 1-2 p.m.
Where: Rose Room, TRW3
 
May 25 panel: Jennifer Hatfield, Jocelyn Lockyer and Bonnie Lashewicz 
Where: G500
Digital Connections and Divides: Shaping Smart Cities and Health Cities
Off-cycle seminar: The state of research on HPV and HPV vaccines

   

     
When: June 22
Where: Foothills Campus
 
May 31: Robert Bednarczyk, Emory University
Where: Theatre 3, HSC

Are you or your research making waves in the news cycle? Have you received an award or nailed down an impressive partnership? Did you clinch a massive grant or get yourself published again? We want to hear from you. Email [email protected]

 
 

The O'Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary supports excellence in population health and health services research, realizing the benefits of such research by informing 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.