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HDRN Canada Summer Office Hours

Are you writing a grant to do multi-regional research? HDRN Canada's Summer Office Hours offer one-on-one advice from scientists who provide personalized support and answer questions about methods, analytic services, harmonized data and other things to help you write a successful grant application. SIGN UP.

Building public trust in health data use

It’s critical for the public to have trust in how our health data are collected, protected, shared and used. Join this special webinar featuring HDRN Canada's Dr. Kim McGrail and Julia Burt to learn about our collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada on the role of transparency and data literacy in creating public trust. REGISTER.

Happy birthday Pragmatic Trials Training Program!

HDRN Canada's Pragmatic Trials Training Program marks its first anniversary next month! Over the past year, it has delivered weekly modules, spotlighting exemplar trials, creating opportunities for learners to engage in expert-led discussions, and nurturing a strong community of emerging pragmatic trialists. Visit pragmatictrialstraining.ca for more!

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Mapping health workforce data in Canada

How can we strengthen Canada’s health workforce through better use of data? HDRN Canada has published a new story with Executive member Dr. Ted McDonald and DASH Program Lead Carrie-Anne Whyte discussing ways to optimize data use in health workforce research and planning using forward-thinking data strategies. READ.

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Funding awarded to use #AdminData in clinical trials

The ACT Consortium/HDRN Canada Clinical Trials Working Group has awarded funding to six researchers from across Canada for capacity-building projects to advance the novel use of administrative data in the planning, conduct or evaluation of clinical trials. Stay tuned for more about the recipients and their projects!

Upcoming Events

CRDCN: Opening Doors to Data JUNE 16 - 19

The Canadian Research Data Centre Network is hosting free in-person trainings in Atlantic Canada for researchers on restricted data discoverability for restricted data research projects and on mechanisms for researchers and government to collaborate. Sessions run at UNB, UPEI, Dalhousie University and Memorial University.

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R for Data Visualization
JUNE 16, 18 & 20 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CT

Ready to level up your R skills? In this three-day hands-on, in-person workshop, presented by George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation’s Data Science platform, you’ll learn how to create customized graphs using R’s ggplot2 library, one of the most popular graphics and visualization programs.

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CanPath Access Office Hours JUNE 18 | 2:00 p.m. ET

Are you interested in leveraging CanPath data for multi-regional research? Check out CanPath Access Office Hours, a quarterly virtual Q&A session to learn more about Canada’s largest population health cohort.

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New mental health & cancer datasets in SK JUNE 18 | 3:00 p.m. ET

Learn about two newly released datasets on mental health and addictions, and cancer, as well as how to access them for your research in this webinar hosted by Health Research Data Platform—Saskatchewan.

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News from Across the Network

New tool to accelerate clinical trials

Canada's research community has a new tool to accelerate clinical trials! CanReview is a pan-Canadian system supported by the Accelerating Clinical Trials (ACT) Consortium to enable a single research ethics for multi-site clinical trials to improve study start-up times and equitable access to trial participation. Get started!

Health Data Stewardship Principles open review

CIHI is inviting open review of its Health Data Stewardship Principles, developed to help build consensus around safe and ethical practices for health data sharing, access and use, and provide guidance in a rapidly evolving health data landscape. Submit feedback, insights and suggestions on these principles until June 18.

Ontario long-term care research shows stark outcomes

A new study from ICES shows that a significant number of long-term care residents experience states of severe cognitive and physical impairment after admission, leaving them unable to make personal decisions and unable to communicate with staff or loved ones, indicating the need for quality of life discussions.

The power of Patient Reported Outcome Measures

What patients share with their care team can make all the difference. PROMs – Patient Reported Outcome Measures – are extremely useful but can raise patient questions and concerns. Unité de soutien SSA Québec has launched a microsite that explains what PROMs are and why they are useful, with explanations, testimonials and podcasts.

New insights into deaths across Canada

The Canadian Coroner and Medical Examiner Database offers standardized data from all provinces and territories on the causes and circumstances of death. This resource from Statistics Canada facilitates the identification and characterization of emerging and known safety hazards to help reduce preventable deaths among Canadians.