{"id":371,"date":"2020-03-09T09:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/?p=371"},"modified":"2020-03-11T16:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T21:02:26","slug":"workshops-aim-to-strengthen-health-care-research-in-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/workshops-aim-to-strengthen-health-care-research-in-manitoba\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshops aim to strengthen health-care research in Manitoba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Increased collaboration among health-care researchers and\ninvolvement from policymakers, patients and the community are important keys to\nbuilding a health-care system that meets the needs of all people, organizers of\na new province-wide initiative said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2019, the Manitoba Primary & Integrated Healthcare Innovation Network<\/a> (MPN) hosted the Building Primary Health Care Research Capacity in Manitoba meeting, a two-day event that brought together 49 researchers, clinicians, policymakers and community partners from across the province to begin identifying priority actions to build research capacity.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to strengthen our research capacity, especially at\na time when there is significant health system change underway,\u201d said Dr. Patty\nThille, one of the event\u2019s organizers. \u201cResearch capacity, in simple terms, is\nthe ability to carry out research. It involves a range of actions, such as\nenhancing skills and confidence, at different levels \u2013 individuals, teams and\nwithin communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was funded and supported by MPN. Thille, assistant\nprofessor of physical therapy in the College of Rehabilitation\nSciences<\/a>, and Dr. Gayle Halas, co-research lead with MPN and chair of\ninterprofessional collaborative practice, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences<\/a>,\nco-facilitated the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top priorities identified at the workshop were a commitment\nto equity, the creation of a \u201ccentre of excellence\u201d that would serve as a\none-stop resource for primary health-care research, and establishing a cross-Manitoba\nnetwork that brings patients, policymakers and community partners together with\nresearchers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is important to develop a health-care system that meets\nthe needs of people wherever they are, as opposed to building models and\nsystems that tend work best for people who already have a lot of resources,\u201d\nThille said. \u201cIt\u2019s a really relevant topic in Manitoba, where we still have the\nlegacies of colonial oppression and some pretty notable disparities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A planning committee also included Dr. Jamie Falk, assistant\nprofessor in the College\nof Pharmacy<\/a>, Dr. Alan Katz, director of the Manitoba\nCentre for Health Policy<\/a>, and Dr. Roberta Woodgate, professor in the College of Nursing<\/a> and\nCanada Research Chair in Child and Family Engagement in Health Research and\nHealthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe idea was to be cross-college, cross sectors, and be\nstrategic about where we put our energies,\u201d Thille said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event included three international speakers, including Dr.\nGrant Russell, professor of primary care research at Monash University in\nMelbourne, Australia, who introducedthe dimensions of research capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Anne MacFarlane, professor of primary health-care\nresearch at the University of Limerick, Ireland, spoke to the value of\ncommunity involvement in primary health care, offering examples from her own\nresearch on migrant health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jean-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Levesque, chief executive of the NSW\nAgency for Clinical Innovation in Chatswood, Australia, outlined what he\nanticipates are big concerns in the primary care field. Among these were the\nneed to study new ways to use health-care data and personalized universality in\nhealth care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second conference will be held in June, with exact date,\nlocation and speakers to be announced soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will also be a series of one-hour online discussions,\nthe first of which takes place March 31 and will help those not in attendance\nat the November meeting catch up on what has happened to date and give feedback\non the emerging direction of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe discussions are open to anyone who\u2019s interested,\u201d said\nJennifer Pepneck, knowledge broker with MPN. \u201cWe are looking to hear from\nclinicians and researchers doing work in primary health care as well as\npolicy-makers and people who bring the patient voice to the discussion.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Increased collaboration among health-care researchers and involvement from policymakers, patients and the community are important keys to building a health-care system that meets the needs of all people, organizers of a new province-wide initiative said. In November 2019, the Manitoba Primary & Integrated Healthcare Innovation Network (MPN) hosted the Building Primary Health Care Research Capacity…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/cors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}