The Institute

Initiatives and partnerships

Campus Alberta Health Outcomes and Public Health

Through the formal establishment of Campus Alberta Health Outcomes and Public Health, participating partners seek to align creativity, expertise, educational programs, and research platforms toward the common goal of internationally-leading innovation in the domains of health outcomes and public health.

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makeCalgary

makeCalgary: is a community based research platform in the University of Calgary's Faculty of Environmental Design. makeCalgary has organized its research into four design criteria that define a great city: RESILIENT, HEALTHY, VIBRANT, and EQUITABLE.

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Urban Alliance

The Urban Alliance is a research partnership between the City of Calgary and University of Calgary, created to encourage and co-ordinate the seamless transfer of cutting-edge research between the university and city.

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Age-Friendly University

The Age-Friendly University (AFU) Network consists of institutions of higher education around the globe who have committed themselves to becoming more age-friendly in their programs and policies.

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IMAGINE

The IMAGINE Project is a grassroots, citizen-led initiative that aims to refocus the health-care system on the patient.

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Street CCRED (EP)

Street CCRED (Community Capacity in: Research, Education, and Development) is a community-based response to the suffering of Calgary's most vulnerable citizens.

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International Population Data Linkage Network

The 2018 International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) Conference hosted the “2018 IPDLN Science Slam”, an opportunity for presenters to share their research to a diverse audience in an entertaining way.

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Centre for Health Informatics

Centre for Health Informatics brings together data assets to foster collaboration among investigators, support grant development, recruit faculty and students, develop cutting-edge analytics, and build capacity in data science and machine-learning.

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Children First Canada

Children First Canada is a national non-profit organization with a bold and ambitious vision that together we can make Canada the best place in the world for kids to grow up.

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Patient and Community Engagement Research (PaCER)

The Patient and Community Engagement Research (PaCER) program, as part of the O’Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary and in partnership with Alberta Health Services through the Strategic Clinical Networks™, is committed to transforming the role of patients in health care and health culture through engagement research.

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