🕓EXTENDED! Submit your abstract to present at AbSPORU’s 10th Annual NorthWest SPOR Collaborative Forum in Calgary, AB from May 12 - 14! We are looking for presenters for workshops, panels, lightning talks, posters, and presentations. ⏰APPLY BY MARCH 2 tinyurl.com/abstracts2025

The Patient Engagement Journal Club for March will be great! The SPOR question is always how does patient engagement influence research? Come find out more! Register here: shorturl.at/jRjzs

Check out this interesting educational initiative collecting info on the experiences of people living with #IBD who were born outside of Canada, and fluent in Arabic, Farsi, Filipino/Tagalog, Hindi, Mandarin, Punjabi, and/or Spanish. To participate: questionnaire.simplesurvey.com/f/s/ibdmededuc…

Find out more about our free, public town hall - join us to learn about misinformation and how to figure out how to know what to trust when you make important health decisions for you and your family 👇🏽👇🏽

✨ Young women and adolescent girls are not just the future – they are the present. We need to amplify their voice and leadership to make #GenderEquality a reality #ForAllWomenAndGirls. Together, we can be the generation for lasting change. #IWD2025

#UCalgary stroke researchers find silver linings in neuroprotection studies bit.ly/41l6lvN

We are making great strides in our policy advocacy campaign with the Calgary Alliance for the Common Good! Our Good Job Research Action Team has finalized three key focus areas to guide our work: Workforce development; Recognition of Foreign Credentials and Precarious working

🎉Celebrating the many talented public health researchers and clinicians with the O'Brien Institute who are recipients of CIHR Fall 2024 Grants!

2 weeks ago, the O'Brien Institute co-hosted a town hall on the consequences of health misinformation. Dr. Pamela Roach has authored a piece on ways we can push back on this #publichealth crisis. Read the article below 👇🏽& access reliable resources here: bit.ly/4illGCK

In session four of #ISOQOLVS, speakers will review known environmental factors that often impede healthcare providers' use of PROMs, including organizational operations and physical, technological, and people resources. Learn more: ow.ly/ONVY50VlQUZ University of Washington School of Public Health Amsterdam UMC

Kaplana is a resourceful member of our team. With expertise in qualitative methodology and patient oriented research, she continues to lead patient engagement activities on strokePRO project funded by CIHR and Alberta Innovates Person-centered Methods and Analytics Lab

The researcher received our Patient Engagement Accelerator Award and collaborated with patient partners on this paper. It was a good joint effort with different SPOR teams as well. cjcopen.ca/article/S2589-…

Two of our AbSPORU Patient Engagement members are authors on this paper. We've been supporting this research team to advance our knowledge of equity & wellness in people with advanced cancer from racialized communities in Canada frontiersin.org/journals/oncol…

💡Women's health is public health! From chronic pelvic pain to research gaps, women's health issues are often overlooked—but they impact us all. For #CDNPublicHealthWeek we are spotlighting the facts & sharing the research advancing different areas of #publichealth. Stay tuned!

Healthy aging is public health! It’s about more than just growing older, it’s about living well, with dignity, connection & support. It's important that we work together to build systems that support everyone, at every age. Swipe to learn more. #CanadianPublicHealthWeek #CPHW

Learn how engaging patients as partners can enhance your research quality, accessibility, methods, real-world relevance, impact, & more! #patientorientedresearch

If you are intrigued by how to engage patients meaningfully in your health research working together with you and your team to make your finding relevant to patients - consider taking this certificate.

The measles vaccine does NOT cause autism. The study was a fraud. It was withdrawn. Read more from our former CMOH, now able to provide information to the Alberta public calgaryherald.com/opinion/column…

Measuring Whole Person Health: A Scoping Review pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4018056

Still hoping to attend our 10th Annual Northwest SPOR Collaborative Forum in Calgary, AB from May 12 - 14, 2025? A few tickets have been released! They will go quick! tinyurl.com/2025-CF-Tickets This year’s theme is: ABSPOR & YOU: Partnership. Innovation. Impact.