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Strong ideas rise to the top in competitive funding rounds and this year’s Diabetes Canada competition was no exception. With 13 awards funded from 135 applications, the bar was high. Against that backdrop, five of the 13 funded awards (38%) were led by DAC members. DAC supported 14 of the submitted applications, with three funded, […]

On January 12, 2026, Diabetes Action Canada (DAC) hosted its latest Network Action Session, bringing together researchers, Patient Partners, trainees, and community leaders from across the country to share progress, test ideas, and connect evidence to action across the Network. Research to Action Fellowship: Turning Evidence into Tools We kicked off the session with an […]

Diabetes Action Canada (DAC) was built on a simple idea: research works better when the people most affected by it help shape it. But even with that commitment, we kept asking ourselves an important question, are we really doing patient engagement as well as we could be? A new paper published in the Canadian Journal […]

Thank You for Another Year of Moving Diabetes Research into Action (2025) As we close out 2025, we want to say thank you to everyone who is part of the Diabetes Action Canada (DAC) Network. This work moves forward because people show up, with their expertise, lived experience, and a real willingness to work together […]

We’re excited to share a major milestone for Diabetes Action Canada (DAC): a new peer-reviewed paper, “Partnering for impact: best practices for planning in-person academic events with Patient Partners involvement – Lessons learned from Diabetes Action Canada,” was published in Research Involvement and Engagement in May 2025. Link here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40900-025-00729-9 This paper shares key insights […]

The Diabetes Action Canada team returned from the 2025 Diabetes Canada Professional Conference feeling energized, and inspired by the connections and conversations that shaped a great week. This annual gathering remains one of the few moments where our national community can come together in person, off Zoom, out of email, and reconnect as colleagues, partners, […]

Diabetes Action Canada is pleased to share that Low 2, the second film in this arts-based series co-created with Co-researchers with lived experience from the Calgary Diabetes Advocacy Committee (CDAC), will be screened at the Diabetes Canada Professional Conference on November 27, 2025. Building on the success of the original film Low, this new chapter […]

November 10th-14th, members of Diabetes Action Canada travelled to Wageningen, Netherlands, to join colleagues from across Canada and the Netherlands for the end-of-grant meeting of the Right Timing to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes (TIMED) Consortium. The gathering marked an important milestone in a collaboration that brings together world-leading chronobiologists, clinicians, implementation scientists, and Patient Partners […]