Health minister calls for safe supply
Over the summer, Canada's health minister, Patty Hajdu, sent a letter to provincial and territorial ministers of health and regulatory colleges to encourage action at all levels to better provide people who use drugs with a full spectrum of options for care from practitioners.

This includes increasing access to safer, pharmaceutical-grade alternatives to contaminated illegal drug supplies in a bid to “achieve the common goal of saving lives and preventing harm.”
UFlourish
Build positive mental health, resiliency, and community connection at UCalgary through online and in-person workshops, seminars, and events happening until Nov. 13, 2020.
Indigenous Primary Health Care and Policy Research (IPHCPR) Network Journal Club
On Oct. 19, learn more about Indigenous community-based dementia care and approaches to brain health that strengthen cultural continuity.
Call for proposals
The WHO Health Ethics and Governance Unit is inviting proposals which address the ethics of COVID-19 public health preparedness and response.

Deadline: Oct. 26, 2020
Preventing overdiagnosis
As a prelude to Oxford University’s Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference coming to Calgary in 2021, of which the O’Brien Institute will be a partner organization, attend the Preventing Over-Extrapolation from Data to Policy webinar on Oct. 19.
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 500 multidisciplinary researchers from 13 Cumming School of Medicine departments, nine additional University of Calgary faculties, including 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.