Congratulations to our Health Technology Assessment and Network Analytics team, who collaborated on a recent research protocol: Impact of Intersecting Systems of Oppression on Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Among Those Who Identify as Women of Low Socioeconomic Status: Protocol for a Convergent Mixed Methods Study. The protocol, whose lead author is Dr. Aleksandra Stanimirovic, was published […]

  This year, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin. To mark this occasion the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, Diabetes Action Canada, and the University of Toronto Department of Medicine have brought together a diverse group of speakers to share their diabetes stories. On April 14th, 2021 learn the latest approaches […]

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] At Diabetes Action Canada sex-and gender-based analysis plus (SGBA+) is incredibly important in what we do, but is there a clear understanding of what it means?  Diabetes Action Canada’s Sex and Gender Research Enabling Program would like to shed some light on why SGBA+ is so important in health research and how it can be considered and applied […]

As part of Dr. Jon McGavock’s type 1 diabetes (T1D) and exercise research at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM), his team has developed a series of webinars on this topic. These webinars have been designed based on the lab’s recent priority-setting project, which was done to determine what the most important questions […]

Congratulations to the University of Toronto’s Family Medicine Department on the launch of their 2020 University of Toronto Family Medicine Report: Caring for Our Diverse Populations. The report illustrates the critical role of family doctors in caring and advocating for the communities they serve. You can learn more about the report and read it on […]

  Two years ago, the SGBA+ team at Women’s College Research Institute (WCRI) launched The Health Researcher’s Toolkit, a series of seven interactive e-learning modules focused on the integration of sex and gender in health research. The modules are designed to benefit both experienced and emerging researchers across a range of disciplines, from medical sciences […]

  Just in time for World Diabetes Day on November 14, two of Diabetes Action Canada’s programs have been highlighted in a Globe and Mail supplement. The article, Unleashing the power of data to enhance health outcomes for Canadians with diabetes, features the National Diabetes Repository and Connect1d programs. It is available online now. Read […]