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
MEDIA RELEASE: Canada takes leadership role at Global Summit to End Diabetes Stigma
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 […]
Understanding and Preventing DKA: New Research Highlights Real-World Barriers and Opportunities for Change
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 […]
Preventing Lower-Limb Amputations with Explainable AI
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 […]
Webinars
Living and Thriving with Type 1 Diabetes
From celebrated athletes to health care dynamos and everyone in between, there are a range of people not just living with type 1 diabetes, but also thriving. Jen Hanson, Executive Director of Connected in Motion and a person living with diabetes shares the community perspective of an active life with T1D. Oria James, Volunteer Researcher at World Health Organization & Cofounder of the Canadian College Diabetes Network, who also lives with T1D, brings her perspective on how to excel in post-secondary education while living with diabetes.
Podcasts
Islet Biologists Embrace Patient-Oriented Research
Think Patient Partners can’t participate in discovery-level research? Think again!
Host Krista Lamb talks with Dr. Rob Screaton from the University of Toronto, Patient Partner Zoe Hilton and trainee scientist Cassie Locatelli. These three guests are working on a project incorporating Patient Partners into an islet biology training program.