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Here is a short (1 minute) video that describes the Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovation (PIHCI) Network. Dr. Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant, Executive Director of the National Coordinating Office of PIHCI Network discusses how this ‘network of networks’ plays a key role in strengthening primary health care in Canada.

BC-PHCRN hosted a post-conference workshop at the 2020 UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research annual health policy conference, March 5-6, in Vancouver. The workshop provided a forum for learning and discussion about the infrastructure, tools, and initiatives currently underway in BC to support a primary care learning health system, and discussed the progress…

This study will be carried out in four provinces in Canada including British Columbia (BC), Alberta (AB), Ontario (ON), and Quebec (QC). The goal of the research is to study provincial and regional policy documents that support integration in health services through teams,where two or more providers work together in the community to care for…

This webinar will demonstrate how a performance measure was created using health administrative data to compare osteoporosis screening rates across three Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia). Challenges and solutions for operationalizing this multi-jurisdictional measure, whereby data are not standardized or pooled across jurisdictions, will be described. Speakers: Wasem Alsabbagh, School of Pharmacy, University…

BC-PHCRN is hosting a post-conference workshop at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) annual health policy conference, which is focused this year on the balance of public and private financing of health care. The workshop will be held at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront in Vancouver on Friday, March 6, 2020, from…

Who we are A group of 10 diverse patient partners from across the province who work together with researchers, decision makers, and clinicians. Our goal is to improve the delivery of primary health care to British Columbians though collaboration and implementation of evidence-based innovations. What we do The Patient Advisory is a key stakeholder group…

The UBC Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join a multidisciplinary translational research program with specific goals to improve the care of children, youth and young adults living with diabetes. The successful candidate will have been awarded the doctoral degree (e.g., PhD, ScD) degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics…

The Transdisciplinary Understandings and Training on Research – Primary Health Care (TUTOR-PHC) online training program is currently accepting applicants for its one-year certificate program. TUTOR-PHC is open to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, mid-career clinicians, and decision-makers in primary health care. TUTOR-PHC is a one-year, pan-Canadian, interdisciplinary research capacity building program that has been training primary…

Ruth Lavergne, Assistant Professor in the SFU Faculty of Health Sciences, is giving a seminar on Nov. 12 at noon, hosted by the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Practice patterns among early-career primary care physicians: Is avocado toast ruining primary care in Canada? Ruth Lavergne, Simon Fraser University Tuesday, Nov 12, 2019…

The BC Academic Health Sciences Network is presenting a Learning Health Systems Webinar October 16 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Presented by: Professor Jean-François Ethier Learning Health Systems require common, connecting infrastructure in order to operate at scale. This talk will describe the development of technology in Quebec that puts the patient at the…