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.

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Patient Engagement

Engaging people with diabetes as active partners in health research to maximize the benefits of research for all communities.

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Digital Health

Using health data to better understand those living with diabetes and transform diabetes self-management.

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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.

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Recent News

MEDIA RELEASE: Canada takes leadership role at Global Summit to End Diabetes Stigma

19 March 2026

Next week, advocates, researchers, clinicians, and people living with diabetes from more than 30 countries will gather in Jaipur, India, for the inaugural Global Summit to End Diabetes Stigma. This landmark event will bring together global voices, lived experience, and evidence to confront one of the most persistent and overlooked barriers in diabetes: stigma. The […]

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Understanding and Preventing DKA: New Research Highlights Real-World Barriers and Opportunities for Change

10 March 2026

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) remains one of the most serious emergencies faced by adults living with type 1 diabetes. Even today, DKA leads to thousands of hospital visits in Canada each year. While prevention is absolutely possible, the steps involved: checking ketones, interpreting results, adjusting insulin, and knowing when to seek urgent care, can feel confusing […]

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Preventing Lower-Limb Amputations with Explainable AI

6 March 2026

Lower-limb amputations remain one of the most devastating complications of diabetes, yet many are preventable with timely screening and intervention. Through a collaboration with GEMINI, the Vector Institute, and Unity Health Toronto, Diabetes Action Canada researchers helped develop and validate a new artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to identify people at high risk for diabetic […]

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Webinars

Sex and Gender

At Diabetes Action Canada sex-and gender-based analysis plus (SGBA+) is incredibly important in what we do, but is there a clear understanding of what it means? Diabetes Action Canada’s Sex and Gender Research Enabling Program would like to shed some light on why SGBA+ is so important in health research and how it can be considered and applied throughout the research process.

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Podcasts

Reshaping How we Research Type 1 Diabetes

On this episode of Actions on Diabetes, host Krista Lamb will be chatting with two guests who are looking at ways to improve the coordination of care for people living with type 1 diabetes. The Reshape T1D project tries to understand how people interact with the health care system by involving those living with T1D and their clinicians in designing the research process.

Our guests are Jamie Boisvenue, a PhD student at the Alberta Diabetes Institute and the University of Alberta, and Patient Partner Kathleen Gibson. They are hoping to highlight have lived experience to help clinicians provide better patient-forward care.

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Land Acknowledgement

We begin by acknowledging the land on which Diabetes Action Canada operates. For thousands of years, this land has been the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishinabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Mississaugas of the Credit, and it remains home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples today.

To the Indigenous Peoples who have been the stewards of the lands where our Network members reside and work, we extend our deepest respect and affirm our commitment to fostering understanding and appreciation for the diverse cultures, histories, and knowledge of Indigenous communities. We recognize our responsibility and accountability in advancing the ongoing reconciliation process and are grateful for the privilege to work and learn on these lands.