Patient and stakeholder engagement is increasingly promoted to improve the relevance, feasibility and ethical quality of osteoarthritis research. The scoping...

The rising prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs), largely driven by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), presents complex healthcare challenges. Evidence suggests that meaningful engagement...

A practical session on turning patient stories into research and policy decisions — eliciting, synthesizing, and acting on lived experience.

A practical session on turning patient stories into research and policy decisions — eliciting, synthesizing, and acting on lived experience.

Deepen your understanding of choosing participatory methods across the research lifecycle. Move beyond simply "engaging patients."

Cervical cancer is a preventable cancer through the use of screening and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Even with the availability of screeni…

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, yet the translation of established prevention and treatment strategies into routine clinical practice rema...

Background and aims Learning Health Systems (LHS) integrate research, clinical expertise, and patient data to continuously improve health care. Although community engagement is central to LHS, existin...

Indonesia's government has labeled LGBT+ people a "national threat," fueling violence, raids, and vigilante attacks. No one should be treated as an enemy simply for being who they are. Sign to demand that this dangerous decree be repealed.

Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) is at the centre of high-quality health research, but PPI representatives are often limited in terms of demographic diversity and are often absent from ...

The Northern Research to Results Competition is led by Northern Health in partnership with Michael Smith Health Research BC and Spirit of the North. This competitive funding opportunity is designed to...

The Fraser Health Research to Results Competition is a funding opportunity designed to support applied research that addresses real-world health care priorities across Fraser Health. Delivered in part...

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Recent shifts toward patient-centered care position patients as active participants in health care delivery, yet limited empirical work explains when and why patients engage in co-production. Drawi...

The funding comes as the HRB is investing €12 million in 29 investigator-led research projects to support innovative and internationally competitive research across patient-oriented research (POR), po...

Heart disease, such as a heart attack, is one of the most common health conditions affecting Canadians and can impact the lives of individuals, families and caregivers. Our group is striving to better understand what matters most to people affected by heart conditions to inform meaningful research. By learning from your experiences, we hope to identify priorities, challenges, and opportunities to improve cardiovascular health care and promote health knowledge in a way that matters most to those affected.

Police in Türkiye raided homes overnight and jailed people for running LGBT+ organizations, calling legal work a crime. Add your name and demand their immediate release.

Background Patient engagement is the practice of “meaningful and active collaboration [of patient partners] in governance, priority setting, conducting research and knowledge translation.” Patient eng...

Background Up to 70% of people living with Motor Neuron Disease (plwMND) report distressing episodes of choking (a feeling of suffocation or airways blockage) due to involvement of bulbar muscles. The...

Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research has been shown to be integral to good research practices, ensuring research is relevant to the population it serves and appropriately conduc...

Evidence‐Based Medicine (EBM) has strengthened clinical decision‐making, but evidence alone cannot ensure that care is delivered safely, consistently, or in a manner that produces outcomes meaningful ...

Many health research organisations make strong commitments to involvement in their organisational strategies. This commitment is often operationalised via an involvement strategy, and evidenced by hig...

Why successful clinical research depends not only on finding eligible participants, but on designing studies people can realistically join-and remain in

AbstractObjectives. Medication-related harm following hospital discharge is a well-documented patient safety concern, particularly among older adults with

Introduction ‘Frailty’ as a concept is being increasingly integrated into healthcare, but the language around frailty is contentious and potentially stigmatising to patients. It is therefore importa...

Congratulations to 30 emerging researchers who are advancing research and building careers in BC.

For decades, researchers have largely studied aspects of sex and gender separately; the former as a basic science and the latter as a social construct with real world consequences, including health in...

Purpose. The purpose of this study is to examine how an integrated substance use educational and fitness programme, Boxing Clever, can help to cultivate recovery capital (RC) for individuals currently...

Patient and public involvement (PPI) is recognized as essential for scaling interventions in health and social services, but there are few guidelines to support it. We sought consensus on strategies f...

The involvement of people with lived experience makes research relevant and useful to the people it intends to help. How we conceptualise involvement influences every aspect of our approach to it. Ove...

Background Public involvement in health and social care research improves relevance, transparency, and impact. Since their launch in 2018, the UK Standards for Public Involvement have provided a pract...

Purpose. Involving people living with dementia as research participants is increasingly recognized as essential to ensuring the relevance, quality and impact of dementia research. Yet participation re...

Purpose. Involving people living with dementia as research participants is increasingly recognized as essential to ensuring the relevance, quality and impact of dementia research. Yet participation re...

The Ministry of Health Research Seed Grant Program provides funding to universities in British Columbia to produce research that responds to the Ministry of Health’s research questions.

Representatives from various practice-based research programs have come together to establish a Canadian Practice-Based Research Network (CP-BRN). CP-BRN is a collective of healthcare leaders focused ...

The award will provide up to $20,000 to support collaborative knowledge mobilization activities.