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
Beyond the Plate: Linxi Mytkolli Brings Type 1 Diabetes Representation to MasterChef Canada
Diabetes Action Canada’s (DAC) Director of Patient Engagement and Knowledge Mobilization, Linxi Mytkolli, is one of 16 home cooks competing on Season 9 of MasterChef Canada. Linxi is making history as the first person living with Type 1 diabetes to compete on a MasterChef franchise anywhere in the world. For Linxi, entering the MasterChef kitchen […]
Beyond the Numbers: Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes Call for Care That Supports Mental Health
New research led by Dr. Carly Whitmore and colleagues’ highlights young adults’ desire for diabetes care that looks beyond glucose measures and recognize the ongoing emotional labour of living with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes care is about more than the numbers HbA1c, time in range and other clinical measures are essential to managing type 1 […]
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 […]
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
Reducing the Risk of Diabetic Retinopathy
Episode five looks at Project OPEN and its potential to reduce the risk of diabetic retinopathy. Malcolm Sissmore and Dr. Michael Brent from UHN Research discuss how this program is trying to make eye screening much more accessible for people living with diabetes.