Diabetes Action Canada
Improving Lives with Diabetes Through Research, Patient Engagement, and Knowledge Mobilization
Our Network unites patient partners, researchers, diabetes specialists, primary care providers, nurses, pharmacists, data experts, and policy leaders to co-design solutions that transform care, reduce health inequities, and improve outcomes for all people living with diabetes.
Patient Engagement
Engaging people with diabetes as active partners in health research to maximize the benefits of research for all communities.
Digital Health
Using health data to better understand those living with diabetes and transform diabetes self-management.
Knowledge Mobilization
Knowledge mobilization (KM) involves activities that help create and use research in practical ways, enabling research to be applied in real-world settings more quickly to improve the lives of patients and the public.
Recent News
Meet Macenzie Rebelo, DAC’s New Communications and Engagement Associate
Macenzie Rebelo joins the Diabetes Action Canada (DAC) team as a Communication and Engagement Associate. She is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University, where she earned her Master’s in Journalism. Over the past four years, she has dedicated her journalism to advocating for people with autoimmune conditions and disabilities. Drawing on her lived experience with […]
How Partnership Is Strengthening the Research-to-Action Fellowship
Applications are now open for the next Research-to-Action Fellowship cohort, with only eight days left to apply. This year, the Research-to-Action Fellowship at Diabetes Action Canada is entering an exciting new chapter. With support from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, we are expanding the Fellowship internationally, creating paid leadership roles for alumni, and strengthening the support available to […]
New Photo Exhibition Shares the Untold Everyday Experiences of Young Adults Living with Type 1 Diabetes
Macenzie Rebelo is the Communication and Engagement Associate with Diabetes Action Canada (DAC). She attended the opening of Within the Highs and Lows: Young and Type 1 Photo Exhibition on behalf of DAC. Drawing on her lived experience with an autoimmune condition, she is passionate about advancing equity and inclusion and amplifying community voices to […]
Webinars
Nothing About Us Without Us
Think you can’t define a research question or play an active part in planning a study without a PhD? Not so! For decades, research on people with diabetes focused on the patient as the subject, not as an active part of the process itself. In this engaging session, Dr. Holly Witteman, a researcher who lives with T1D, along with her colleague Dr. Maman Joyce Dogba both from Université Laval and Dr. Joseph Cafazzo, a researcher from the University of Toronto discuss how the role of patients in research is shifting. This talk, moderated by Krista Lamb, will leave people with diabetes feeling empowered not only to share their lived experience, but to use it to help find management options that truly fit their needs.
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.