DAC Training and Mentorship Program Mentorship and Internship Awards 2018-2019 This year, the Diabetes Action Canada Training and Mentoring Program, in collaboration with the Cardiometabolic Health, Diabetes and Obesity Research Network (CMDO), will fund six awards: three Mentorship Awards of $10,000 for a period of one year and three Internship Awards of $10,000 for […]

As posted on the Aging Community Health  Website If you’re a researcher who wants to make the most of the contributions from caregiver partners, you’ll want to watch our latest video. Gail juggles the demands of being a family caregiver and yet still makes time to be an Aging, Community and Health Research Unit caregiver […]

As posted on the Diabetes Canada Website Diabetes Canada released the report “Diabetes 360˚: A Framework for a Diabetes Strategy for Canada. The report contains the recommendations of a coalition of nearly 120 experts from across Canada. Excerpt From the Report The report’s primary recommendation calls for $150 million in funding over seven years to […]

  CMAJ has recently announced CMAJ Open Patient-Oriented Research Collection. This is an exciting opportunity for patient-oriented researchers as it provides a home for research studies that particularly specify how patients were engaged as part of the research team and how their contributions developed the work.  This group is guided by a steering committee composed of researchers and patients from […]

  Community Voices: Diabetes in Indigenous Populations is a video project produced by the Institute of Health Economics in Alberta Canada and support by Boehringer-Ingelheim Canada.  This video aims to highlight Indigenous perspectives on health, and promote shared learning for a variety of stakeholders within the context of health, well-being, and health care in Canada. New […]

  On May 31, 2018, federal, provincial and territorial (FPT) governments released A Common Vision for Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Living in Canada: Let’s Get Moving. This is Canada’s first ever national policy focusing on increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary living in Canada. Led by the Public Health Agency of Canada at […]

Diabetes Action Canada, part of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research SPOR Program in Chronic Disease, is thrilled to announce the launch of the National Diabetes Repository. The National Diabetes Repository will be a major step forward in the monitoring and treatment of diabetes in Canada by enabling discovery through research in a secure and […]

  On March 30th, 2018 the much anticipated awardees were announced for the CIHR/JDFR innovative clinical trials multi-year operating grant to progressively remove the burden from the lives of persons with Type-1 Diabetes (T1D).  Of the eight research groups that applied, three were funded with each receiving up to a maximum of $3,000,000 over 4 […]

Diabetes is considered a global epidemic, affecting 8.5% of the worldwide adult population[i] . By 2020, 10% of the Canadian population will be living with diabetes. Those with the disease have an elevated risk of eyesight deterioration, which is the leading cause of blindness in adults under 60 years of age (working age).  Diabetic Retinopathy […]

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