The Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit is seeking patient/public leaders to join its Board of Directors. In particular, OSSU is looking to include: patient and/or caregiver representatives; Indigenous community representatives; and, Francophone community representatives. New directors will serve an initial term…
Two OSSU-supported Ontario Indigenous health research projects will have far-reaching effects for people within the province and beyond. Empowerment, respect, partnership and connections are shared themes in these projects, one working to improve the mental health and well-being of Indigenous…
Deux projets de recherche en santé autochtone appuyés par l’USSO en Ontario auront des effets d’une grande portée dans la province et au‑delà de ses frontières. Autonomisation, respect, partenariat et connexions sont des thèmes communs de ces projets, dont l’un…
On February 20th, 2020, OSSU’s Patient Partners Working Group brought together representatives from Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Nadia Tanel and Beth Dangerfield) and L’Hopital Montfort (Denis Prud’homme) to discuss how their organizations had embedded patient partnership in research beyond…
Thursday February the 20th marks the date for the OSSU Patient Partners Working Group Winter Webinar. This time the webinar will feature patient partners, administrators and researchers from Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and Hopital Montfort, discussing what it means…
OSSU’s Patient Partners Working Group supported a cataloguing of organizations across Ontario that have instituted approaches to patient partnership in health research that reach beyond the project and embed partnership in the organization as a whole. This catalogue marks the…
Charlotte Munro bears a tattoo of her ECG reading from when she emerged from a near fatal coma. It’s a talisman of sorts, with the phrase “have faith” incorporated into the graph lines. “When doctors didn’t have a prognosis to…
Charlotte Munro s’est fait tatouer son ECG quand elle est sortie d’un coma presque fatal. C’est un genre de talisman, avec le message « aie confiance » incorporé dans les lignes du graphique. « Lorsque les médecins n’avaient pas de pronostic à donner…
A pioneering report and a series of papers from Chiefs of Ontario (COO), in partnership with a research team funded by an OSSU IMPACT award and ICES, will fill gaps in understanding about diabetes and its impact on First Nations…
Un rapport inédit et une série d’articles des Chefs de l’Ontario, produits en partenariat avec une équipe de recherche financée grâce à une subvention IMPACT de l’USSO et par l’ICES, combleront les lacunes dans la compréhension du diabète et de…