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17th Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference June 17-18, 2016 (Fri-Sat) The Coast Capri Hotel, Kelowna BC

The Canadian Health Workforce Conference CHWC) 2016 will be held Oct 3-5, 2016 in Ottawa, ON. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations on HHR topics will be accpeted until April 1, 2016.

The BC SUPPORT Unit is beginning to transition from start-up phase to regular operations following CIHR approval of their business plan this month. First steps as they begin to transition include completing the recruitment of an executive director and a scientific director who will lead the implementation of their business plan. More 

“Networks are the future of health transformation” – the Spinal Cord Injury Knowledge Mobilization Network (SCI KMN)’s December 2016 newsletter describes the strategic, economic, and practical reasons why collaborative networks are so key to health care transformation. More about SCI KMN.

Accreditation Canada is a not-for-profit, independent organization that provides national and international health services organizations with quality-focused, comprehensive accreditation services. At this time, Accreditation Canada has two exciting Post-Doctoral Fellowship opportunities available. This is the first opportunity of its kind in Canada and will be of interest to those with a focus in the area…

The CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) is seeking applicants for the CIHR-IPPH Trailblazer Award in Population Health Solutions. This career achievement award recognizes exceptional contributions in the area of population health intervention research. Two awards of $15,000 will be given to exceptional Canadian researchers at early to mid and late career stages.…

The BC Primary Health Care Research Network is seeking a Network Manager to oversee our operations and support our vision, goals, and initiatives. Apply via the UBC online system by October 30, 2015. Full job description.

The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) is recruiting for a new CRC Tier II position in Applied Public Health, as described in their posting. They are looking for an outstanding early career researcher with success in attracting peer-reviewed funding to help exploit their unique population-based research data repository. This includes newly-acquired data on Justice, Social Housing,…

There continues to be much debate about the merits of different ways that health systems choose to pay family doctors. While most GPs in British Columbia work under the fee for service system, there is also a non-FFS funding model called “population-based funding” that has been in existence for 17 years. Join them for this interactive Speaker Series…

TUTOR-PHC is a one-year, pan-Canadian interdisciplinary research capacity building program that has been training primary and integrated health care researchers and decision-makers from family medicine, nursing, psychology, epidemiology, social work, education, policy and many other disciplines since 2003. This is a well-run and high quality program. The next application deadline is November 2, 2015 (program runs…