HDRN Canada is recruiting for additional individuals for the Corporation’s Board of Directors, which will play a formative role in shaping how the network grows and evolves over time. This is a volunteer Board and each Board Director shall serve without remuneration, with necessary expenses reimbursed by the Corporation. [...]
With input from multiple stakeholder groups, Health Data Research Network Canada (HDRN Canada) has compiled a set of guidelines for researchers on what should be included in consent forms for projects where new study data will be linked to existing administrative data. [...]
September 30th marks the first annual federal statutory National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) in Canada. In 2015 when the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was released, it listed 94 Calls to Action to various levels of government, Churches, and other stakeholders to address the impacts that resulted from centuries worth of attempted assimilation and ethnocide that led to the implementation of the residential school system. [...]
In 2020, HDRN Canada put out a national Call for Proposals for research teams to validate or test new algorithms to measure population health, health services use, and determinants of health across multiple provinces and/or territories.
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The fellowship objectives and program of work are: To work closely with members of the PE WG and with the PAC to accelerate HDRN Canada’s work and progress on public engagement, and to share and spread learnings from HDRN Canada’s public engagement work across HDRN Canada and the SPOR network more broadly. [...]
HDRN Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Christina Weise, Mahadeo Sukhai, Rebecca Fuhrer, and Robert Bell to its Board of Directors. With decades of experience in working across disciplines both in Canada and internationally, they bring diverse perspectives and expertise to provide responsible and effective governance of HDRN Canada. [...]
The following sessions led by members of HDRN Canada’s Executive and Leads teams have been accepted for the 2021 Annual CAHSPR Conference, “Hindsight, Insight and Foresight”. [...]
HDRN Canada is seeking a part-time staff person to coordinate the Network's Public Advisory Council (PAC) and Public Engagement Working Group and provide other general coordination and support as needed. [...]
Today, Health Data Research Network Canada (HDRN Canada) and the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) announced a new partnership to enable linkage of the CLSA cohort data with data held at provincial data centres. [...]
The theme of the conference responds to the Government of Canada's priority for recovery and its commitment to making positive systemic changes through quality data in collaboration with key stakeholders across civil society, academia and different levels of government. [...]