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Full lineup announced! Health Data for All of Us 2025

Health Data for All of Us: A Public Dialogue on AI in Health is coming up on April 29! Explore our exciting lineup of speakers and sessions, including our fantastic keynote panel, which will represent the patient partner, researcher and clinician perspectives on AI in health. Register now!
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Dr. Jennifer Walker awarded $24M in funding

HDRN Canada Executive member Dr. Jennifer Walker received $24 million in federal government funding to decolonize brain health assessment in Indigenous communities and support Indigenous-centred brain health assessment, education and supportive care.
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Public Engagement on Health Data Toolkit released

HDRN Canada's Public Advisory Council is featured in the Public Engagement on Health Data Toolkit, which aims to foster trust and health data literacy through supporting high-quality public engagement by government institutions and community groups around health data.
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Federating data in Canadian public health

How can federated data support a new approach to health data management in public health? Read about a vision for a federated health data system in this news story featuring former Chief Data Officer for the Public Health Agency of Canada, Chris Allison.

Upcoming Events
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Accessing Data through DASH: Researcher Impact Story | MAY 7 | 10:00 a.m. PT

Learn about how accessing data from multiple provinces supported the largest randomized trial ever conducted by Canadian primary care in this webinar featuring DASH researcher Dr. Scott Garrison and Erik Youngson.

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NorthWest SPOR Collaborative Forum
MAY 12-14 | CALGARY

Hosted by AbSPORU, the Northwest SPOR Collaborative Forum on Patient-Oriented Research explores partnership, innovation and impact in patient-oriented research. Register to attend online or in-person in Calgary before May 5.

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Plenaries Announced! CRDCN 2025
MAY 13 - 14 | OTTAWA

HDRN Canada Executive member Dr. Ted McDonald will present at the CRDCN's annual conference, this year celebrating 25 years of partnership with Statistics Canada and other collaborating institutions.


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Indigenous Data Governance Principles & Race-Related Data | MAY 22 | 10:00 a.m. PT

In the next Big IDEAs About Health Data, Dominique Legacy and Laura Ferreira-Legere will discuss ICES's approach to building community partnerships to support Indigenous data governance.

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News from Across the Network
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New changes in coding direction for homelessness

The Canadian Institute of Health Information announced important changes in coding direction for homelessness, clarifying the use of the Canadian definition from the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness to ensure consistent data collection. 
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Machine learning to predict premature death

A new study using administrative data from ICES developed statistical and machine learning models to predict premature death from multimorbidity, the co-occurence of chronic conditions, among people with inflammatory bowel disease.
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The evolution of gender equality in Quebec

For International Women's Day, the Institut de la statistique du Québec highlighted interesting data from their Statistical Showcase on Equality Between Women and Men, which contains a wealth of statistics comparing the living conditions of women and men in Quebec.   
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Health professionals leading patient-oriented research

NL SUPPORT has released a summary of the projects awarded their Health Professional-led Research Funding. Read about these exciting initiatives which will help to develop patient-oriented research and evaluation capacity in Newfoundland and Labrador. 
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Advancing health equity with CanCHEC data

Learn how data from Statistics Canada's Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHEC) drives research and informs health policy by exploring a recent study on disparities in avoidable hospitalizations among racialized groups in Canada.
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Succeeding in Organizational Participatory Research

Unité de soutien SSA Québec has released an interactive guide to support Organizational Participatory Research. Available in English and French, the guide outlines challenges and solutions for implementing change within a health organization such as a clinic or hospital. 

In the Media
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A retrospective look at long COVID five years later

MCHP Senior Research Scientist, and former HDRN Canada Executive member, Dr. Alan Katz spoke with CBC Manitoba about his work studying long COVID, the ongoing impact of the virus and the challenges in accessing care and supports for those impacted.

In Case You Missed It!
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Modernizing HDRN Canada's data access services

In the last HDRN Canada Discussion Session, Carrie-Anne Whyte, Data Access Support Hub (DASH) Program Lead, discussed recent enhancements to multi-regional data access services, improving the researcher experience.

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Homelessness in health administrative data

Check out the recording from our recent Big IDEAs About Health Data webinar with Lucie Richard (St. Michael's Hospital) and Diana Ridgeway (CIHI) talking about improvements and best practices for using identifiers of homelessness in health administrative data. 

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