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Finding Belonging Through Art and Patient Partnership: My Journey at the DAC 2024 Workshop
By Shayla Hele This is the third in our series of blog posts, written by Patient Partners, about their experience at the Diabetes Action Canada Workshop. About Shayla: My name is Shayla Hele. I am 26 years old and have been living with Type 1 Diabetes for 19 years. I have been a part of […]
Navigating Lows and Highs: My Experience at the DAC 2024 Workshop
By Sasha Delorme This is part two in our series of blog posts written by Patient Partners about their experience at the Diabetes Action Canada Workshop. About Sasha: Sasha Delorme is a happily married Métis woman with two sons and two stepchildren. She grew up in a small town in Saskatchewan with her mother, who […]
From Broken Welds to Healing Hearts: My Journey at the DAC Workshop
Written by Al Martin Several of our Patient Partners provided blog posts about their experience of the recent Diabetes Action Canada Workshop. We’re excited to share them with our community. Here is the first in the series, from Patient Partner and Research to Action Fellowship award winner, Al Martin. About Al: My current vocation is […]
Webinars
The WHERE of Knowledge Mobilization
Knowledge mobilization (KM) is not a one size fits all approach. In this fourth video of the KM basics video series, we explore the importance of understanding contexts, settings, and circumstances before we move the research results into the real-world.
Podcasts
Amputation Prevention
On episode four, Patient Partner Tom Weisz and Dr. Charles de Mestral discuss the work being done by the Diabetes Action Canada foot care and amputation prevention team, which is looking at community-based approaches to improving treatments and avoiding lower limb amputations.
Using data to improve health care
Episode four discusses how we can use data to improve health care. Guests Devin Cleary and Dr. Alanna Weisman discuss their research projects in this area – in particular how they are trying to improve outcomes for people with type 1 diabetes.
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Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in working-age Canadians
Indigenous Peoples Health
Building programs and capacity in the respectful engagement of Indigenous people in patient-oriented research.
Training and Mentoring
Ensuring patient-oriented research remains top-of-mind by training the next generation to see it as a critical part of their approach to research.
Older Adults with Diabetes
Providing individualized solutions that help more people live longer, healthier lives with diabetes while avoiding complications.
Become a Patient Partner
Diabetes Action Canada aims to integrate the patient perspective into every step of the research process including developing research questions, defining research objectives, collecting data and evaluating results; however, while some patients have the readiness to contribute as full members of research teams, others may bring a range of expertise such as in ethics or as knowledge brokers.
Partners
Our partners share in our mission to transform the health outcomes of people with diabetes and its related complications. Industry stakeholders have the opportunity to partner with Diabetes Action Canada, the first and only nation-wide collaborative network focused on the prevention of diabetes complications, and play an active role in achieving our goals.