What’s New?
June 2, 2025
Relationship building with the Food as Medicine team. What an incredible group. It was an amazing first day of our kick-off gathering. Can't wait for tomorrow!
June 1, 2025
The Food as Medicine research team is gathering for our start-of-project kick-off meeting. We look forward to the next two days together to build stronger relationships, learn how to use sharing circles for data collection, and prepare to...
May 30, 2025
Happy to attend our first Ottawa Region Cardiovascular Research Day at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute to share our work co-designing a heart failure-mental health intervention in collaboration with our Research Coalition as part...
May 29, 2025
We are carefully designing our upcoming trial to evaluate the effectiveness of our heart failure-mental health intervention. Thanks to mentors at uOttawa's Centre for Practice-Changing Research for helping us to refine our trial design...
May 29, 2025
Energized after a meeting with Art Instructors at Perley Health to co-design an arts-based evaluation strategy for our STEP tool (which aims to improve preparedness for decision-making about long-term care-to-hospital transfers) to run in...
May 28, 2025
Great session on Collaborative Healthcare Improvement Partnerships at Day 2 of CAHSPR25. So much positive feedback and enthusiasm for our brain-heart interconnectome community partnerships project. Happy to get to share all the wonderful...
May 27, 2025
So nice to see so many familiar faces at CAHSPR this year. Happy to have the opportunity to present findings from our policy analysis and stakeholder consultations on the role of assisted living/retirement home regulation on care...
May 26, 2025
Beyond excited to announce that we have received a grant ($20K) from the Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research for our project called "Indigenous Foods as Therapy". This will allow us to continue our work on improving access to...
May 24, 2025
The amazing Community Backyard Garden Project Organizing Committee makes it happen. We launched our 2025 community project today by sharing donated seeds, free seedlings, and lots of advice with dozens of new and experienced backyard...