O'Brien Institute strategic plan 2022-2027

Advancing public health through research excellence

Our mission

is to advance public health through research excellence.

We are

a research institute that champions research to promote population health and high-quality sustainable health care for all.

Our role

is to support academic scholars to tackle public health challenges, bringing them together with health practitioners, citizens, governments, businesses, and non-governmental organizations when collective action is required.

Focus area: Equity

Strategy: Establish a health equity hub that fosters collaborative intersectional research to address the upstream determinants of population health inequities.

Focus area: Prevention

Strategy: Enhance research that examines the underlying causes of morbidity and mortality in populations across all ages and that identifies and accelerates the use of prevention strategies to improve population health.

Focus area: Learning health systems

Strategy: Establish a health system partnered program to embed research into health care delivery to foster continuous quality improvement and innovation.

Focus area: Digital health

Strategy: Expand our capacity to adapt, evaluate and implement digital technologies for better health care.

Focus area: Knowledge exchange

Strategy: Establish a knowledge exchange strategy that brings academic scholars together with citizens, health practitioners, governments, businesses, and non-governmental organizations to collectively tackle public health challenges.

Focus area: Innovation

Strategy: Grow a public health innovation ecosystem to increase the impact of our research.

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Focus area: Evidence informed policy

Strategy: Bring geographically distributed experts together into a virtual health policy centre to advance evidence informed considerations of health in all policies.

We are one community that supports each other.

We foster strong relationships with health practitioners, citizens, governments, businesses, and non-governmental organizations to maximize our impact.