What’s New?

February 20, 2025

February 20, 2025

Happy to share that our partnership studying the connections between policymakers and food security change champions in the North has received funding to continue for another year. We ranked 11th in the CIHR Catalyst Grant: Community...

February 3, 2025

February 3, 2025

Welcome to our newest Research Coordinator, Rebecca Valade. She will be co-leading our Community Partnerships project as part of the Brain-Heart Interconnectome.

January 30, 2025

January 30, 2025

We are humbled to have been awarded the CIHR Institute of Aging Prize: Yves Joanette Award of Excellence in Research in Aging. This prize is given annually to the highest-ranking funded project in the Project Grant competition that is...

January 29, 2025

January 29, 2025

On behalf of our Community Advisory Committee and in partnership with our Principal Investigators Drs. Mwali Muray (uOttawa), Elizabeth Onyango (uAlberta), and Patrick Cortbaoui (McGill), we are thrilled to announce that our research...

January 23, 2025

January 23, 2025

Ready to receive our patient partners at the last of our patient co-design focus groups for our Emergency Department Avoidance Project. We are going to settle on an intervention and work together to create a plan to guide the development...

January 20, 2025

January 20, 2025

Happy to start our week off with the Renfrew Community Paramedicine team at the mid-point evaluation of the second pilot test of our Food Insecurity Screening and Assessment tool. CCAER remains grateful to work with such engaged partners...

December 11, 2024

December 11, 2024

Thrilled to meet fellow uOttawa researcher, Tamara Donnelly, who is also working alongside Indigenous advisor Celina Wolki, and in collaboration with Sonia Wesche and Tiff-Annie Kenny, to do food insecurity research in Paulatuk in the...

December 11, 2024

December 11, 2024

Excited and grateful to have been nominated to sit on the Scientific Council guiding the Brain Heart Interconnectome as the new Theme 4 Co-Lead. Looking forward to helping this diverse and inspiring team accomplish great things that will...

December 10, 2024

December 10, 2024

Cannot wait to begin work on the new Heat Smart project led by Bill Hogg and Sharon Johnston. We will be looking at how primary care can play a role in preventing adverse health outcomes connected to extreme heat events. Glad to be part...