Diabetes Action Canada
Improving Lives with Diabetes Through Research, Patient Engagement, and Knowledge Mobilization
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.
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. For example, working together with patient partners to develop research and sharing the results with others are both KM activities. The goal of KM is to close the gap between research (what we know) and practice (what we do). This helps bring research into real-world use more quickly, improving the lives of patients and the public
Recent News
Webinar – How to Develop a Knowledge Mobilization Plan for your Grants or Existing Research Projects: Introducing the KMap Tool
Join us on February 6, 2025, from 1-2 p.m. (EST) for a live webinar on How to Develop a Knowledge Mobilization Plan for your Grants or Existing Research Projects: Introducing the KMap Tool. Planning for knowledge mobilization (KM) involves preparation, intention, and action. If done early, it can optimize both the mobilization and application of […]
Looking Ahead to 2025: Hopes and Reflections from the DAC Community
At Diabetes Action Canada (DAC), we know that research is about more than data—it’s about people, their lived experiences, and the hope for a better future. This guiding principle was at the heart of our first-ever DAC Patient Partners Holiday Gathering, where we watched The Human Trial and came together to discuss our hopes and […]
Knowledge Mobilization Team Launches KMap Tool
In the summer of 2024, the DAC 2.0 Knowledge Mobilization-Implementation Science (KM-IS) Program team undertook a review of the overall program and its tools and resources. This mid-point review inspired several updates, including a revision of the KM planning tool to optimize its user-friendliness. Now called the KMap Tool (Knowledge Mobilization Action Planning), the new […]
Webinars
My Diabetes Story – Marley and Dana Greenberg
Living with diabetes gives you a unique perspective on this condition—and makes you in many ways an expert on what it’s like to have this disease. Diabetes Action Canada’s Patient Partners Marley Greenberg and Dana Greenberg share their stories and explain why they’re so invested in playing a role in the development of new research programs.
Podcasts
Using Data to Change Lives
Episode six features Kylie Peacock, a Diabetes Action Canada Patient Partner and Conrad Pow, a Senior Project Manager at Diabetes Action Canada discussing the National Diabetes Repository and how Diabetes Action Canada is using data to change lives.