Announcing the recipient of the Diabetes Action Canada Fellowship Awards 2018-2020
DAC Training and Mentorship Program Fellowship Awards 2018-2020 This year, the Diabetes Action Canada Training and Mentoring Program will be granting one Post-doctoral Fellowship Award, peer-reviewed by Diabetes Canada, of $50,000/year for a period of two years. We are pleased to announce the successful recipient of the scholarship award for the Post-doctoral Fellowship 2018-2020: […]
The Health Researcher’s Toolkit: Why Sex & Gender Matter
Women’s Xchange, Diabetes Action Canada’s Sex and Gender Enabling Research Program, has created an interactive and accessible toolkit comprised of 7 e-learning modules focused on the incorporation of sex and gender in research. Women’s Xchange has developed The Health Researcher’s Toolkit: Why Sex and Gender Matter to be as comprehensive as possible, addressing a variety […]
Announcing the Recipients of Diabetes Action Canada Awards (2018-2019)
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 […]
New Video: Insights from a Caregiver Research Partner
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 […]
Diabetes 360: Framework for a National Diabetes Strategy
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 – A home for patient-oriented research
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
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 […]
A Common Vision for Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Living in Canada: Let’s Get Moving
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 […]
JDRF and CIHR are one-step closer to beating Type-1 Diabetes
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 […]