What’s New?
March 12, 2025
In partnership with the Ottawa Valley Food Security Project, our community outreach initiative - the Community Backyard Garden Project - is now recruiting participants for the 2025 growing season. This project unites families in Ottawa to...
March 3, 2025
Sharing the happy news that we were awarded $125,000 through the CIHR Catalyst Grant: Moving Upstream - Structural Determinants of Health to study how policy might be used as a systems-level tool to drive equity-focused reforms to food...
February 27, 2025
Excited to support Marie-Eve Tittley to present preliminary findings from our project "Exploring the experiences of older adults, caregivers and care providers involved in linguistically and culturally discordant home care in the...
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
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
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
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
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
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...








