This funding opportunity focuses on two areas: 1) Comparative policy analyses across different provincial provincial/territorial health system contexts and related health outcomes and 2) comparative analysis of programmatic innovations in health care delivery that could scale to a system level. Read the full funding opportunity.
Author: BRIC NS
Webinar – Intro to BRIC NS
BRIC NS is part of the pan-Canadian SPOR Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations, a network of networks with representation from across the country. With foundations in community-based primary healthcare, BRIC NS is creating partnerships within and across sectors of healthcare (e.g public health, primary healthcare, secondary, tertiary, home and long-term care) as well as outside of the health sector (e.g education, housing, social services) to improve individual and population health, health equity and health system outcomes.
Project Incubator – Personal Health Record provincial roll-out
Project Incubators are an opportunity for researchers, clinicians, policy-makers and other stakeholders in Nova Scotia’s primary and integrated healthcare system to come together to discuss research topics and areas of collaboration. This event will include:
- An introduction to BRIC NS
- Information about funding opportunities
- An introduction for the Personal Health Record (PHR) initiative
- An opportunity to ask questions of people involved in the PHR demonstration project
MSSU Travel Award
The Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit is offering a travel award for to up to 3 people to attend the KT Canada Annual Scientific Meeting in Toronto (June 13-14) and an End of Grant KT Workshop in Toronto (June 15). The award will cover all costs associated with meeting registration, travel and accommodation.
Knowledge Synthesis Grants
The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to support cross-jurisdictional teams of researchers and knowledge users to produce knowledge syntheses or scoping reviews relevant to the priorities of the pan-Canadian Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations (PIHCI) Network that will contribute to the use of synthesized evidence in decision-making and practice across multiple jurisdictions.
Introducing: BRIC NS
We are pleased to announce that, effective immediately, NS-PIHCI will be known as BRIC NS. Our new name, Building Research for Integrated Primary Healthcare, reflects our commitment to building a strong foundation for primary and integrated healthcare research in Nova Scotia. We will continue to identify, support and scale up innovative approaches to primary and integrated healthcare – the building blocks for better patient and health system outcomes.
We are excited to move forward as BRIC NS and look forward to creating new partnerships and strengthening our existing ones.
Quality in Primary Health Care Seminar Series
Personalized Medicine: The Role of Obesity in Prescribing
Often, when we think of personalized medicine we think of genes and high tech solutions to complicated problems. In this presentation, Dr. Gillian Bartlett (Dept. of Family Medicine McGill University) will present some of the work her group has done on exploring personalized medicine from the perspective of patient characteristics that are easily measurable; in this case, obesity.
Members in the news: Benchmarks for end-of-life care
Congratulations to NS-PIHCI members Fred Burge and Beverley Lawson, part of the research team looking at Canadian benchmarks for quality of end-of-life care in cancer – named one of the Canadian Cancer Society’s top 10 research stories of 2015. Led by Dr. Lisa Barbera, this multi-province research project looked at provincial variation in health care services for those at the end of life. Benchmarks and quality indicators were established to help evaluate services.
Read the article in the May 2015 issue of the Journal of Oncology Practice.
Fostering Collaboration – Project Incubators
We will be hosting a series of informal “Project Incubator” discussions to encourage the development of research questions and connections between network members with similar interests.
Quick Strike Fall 2015
CIHR has announced a Quick Strike research project funding opportunity. Quick Strike projects must be cross-jurisdictional (involving a minimum of two member networks), be feasible for completion during a time frame of up to 12 months and must have high potential to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, scalability and/or policy and program impact of primary and integrated health care innovations.
Important dates
Application deadline: December 1, 2015
Anticipated notice of decision: March 31, 2016
Funding start date: March 1, 2016
Interested research teams must submit an Expression of Interest form to NS-PIHCI. For more information contact Jessica Nowlan at j.nowlan@dal.ca.
Full competition details can be found here.
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