Diabetes Action Canada

Diabetes Action Canada

Our Network consists of a diverse team of patient partners, researchers, diabetes specialists, primary care practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, data specialists, and health policy experts committed to improving the lives of persons living with diabetes.

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Recent News

Finding Belonging Through Art and Patient Partnership: My Journey at the DAC 2024 Workshop

12 July 2024

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 […]

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Navigating Lows and Highs: My Experience at the DAC 2024 Workshop

11 July 2024

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 […]

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From Broken Welds to Healing Hearts: My Journey at the DAC Workshop

2 July 2024

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 […]

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Webinars

Break and Networking

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Podcasts

Researching ways to manage hypoglycemia

In episode six, Dr. Anne-Sophie Brazeau and Nathalie Kinnard discuss the BETTER registry and the research they are doing in Quebec to help people with T1D manage or prevent hypoglycemia.

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Improving Access to Eye Screening for Newcomers to Canada

Often newcomers don’t know about access to eye screening, or there are cultural or other barriers that aren’t being addressed. But early detection of diabetic retinopathy can save sight and have a huge impact on the overall health of a person.

Today’s guests want to make sure those barriers are overcome. Host Krista Lamb talks to Dr. Joyce Dogba from the University of Laval and Patient Partner Pascual Delgado about their work on the Diabetes Action Canada Immigrant Patient Circle and on reducing barriers to care for all.

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Access Alliance Newest DAC Partner

2 July 2024

Diabetes Action Canada (DAC) is pleased to have Access Alliance as its latest Knowledge User partner. These partnerships foster more collaboration and support for ongoing patient-oriented research successes. Access Alliance is a Community Health Centre, which has been serving Toronto’s marginalized, newcomer and immigrant communities for thirty-five years. They are focused on addressing the deepening […]

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Catalyst for Change Award Winners!

20 June 2024

In May, Diabetes Action Canada (DAC) awarded the first ever Catalyst for Change Awards to three Patient Partners. The Catalyst for Change Award celebrates Patient Partners who have made outstanding contributions to advancing patient-oriented diabetes research and care, embodying transformative achievements in our community. The 2024 winners are: Kate Farnsworth – Mom of a daughter […]

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Celebrating the Life of Clarence Nepinak

17 June 2024

At our recent Diabetes Action Canada Workshop, Dr. Jon McGavock introduced a video honouring the life of Patient Partner Clarence Nepinak, who passed away on November 2, 2022. Nepinak was a respected Indigenous elder and community leader from the Pine Creek First Nation (Minegoziibe Anishinabe) in Manitoba. He was deeply committed to his community, and […]

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Facts on Diabetes

A diabetes diagnosis occurs every 3 minutes in Canada
Over 3 Million Canadians have diabetes and millions more are at risk of developing diabetes
Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in working-age Canadians
Diabetes and its complications cost the health care system $27 billion in 2018
Up to half of Canadian Indigenous Adolescents have multiple risk factors for type-2 diabetes

Programs

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.

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Innovations in Type 1 Diabetes

Creating collaborative patient-oriented research programs that enables innovative research in T1D.

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Diabetic Foot Care and Prevention of Lower Limb Amputations

Preventing lower limb amputation through a community-based chiropody-led approach to treating and preventing foot ulcers.

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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.

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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.

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