One Week to Go: Find and Seek
Join us on February 6, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. ET for the second session in the OSSU World Café Conversations series. This interactive discussion will explore how researchers and people with lived experience find each other, who remains hidden in current engagement approaches, and what needs to change to move beyond engagement with the “usual suspects.”
Together, we will break down silos in the patient engagement ecosystem and share insights on how we interact and collaborate to build more inclusive, effective research partnerships.
What is patient-oriented research?
Patient-oriented research (POR) is an approach to health research that:
- engages patients, researchers and other stakeholders as partners in research
- answers questions that are important to patients
- aims to improve health and the health care system
For Researchers
Access expertise from top research centres in Ontario, workshops, training and resources to help you engage in, and conduct, patient-oriented research.
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For Patients
Tools, training, information and resources to help patients and caregivers partner in patient-oriented research.
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For Policy-makers
Research expertise, health system data, resources and training to help policy-makers and healthcare providers support and apply patient-oriented research.
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