Research
The O'Brien Institute mission is to advance public health through research excellence.
Areas of focus
Healthier Populations
Our goal is to improve health equity and the conditions that determine health.
Strategy: Establish a health equity hub that fosters collaborative intersectional research to address the upstream determinants of population health inequities.
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.
Better Health Care
Our goal is to transform health care so that sustainable high quality health care is available to all people.
Strategy: Establish a health system partnered program to embed research into health care delivery to foster continuous quality improvement and innovation.
Strategy: Expand our capacity to adapt, evaluate and implement digital technologies for better health care.
Thought Leadership
Our goal is to solve complex public health challenges with great ideas and resolve.
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.
Strategy: Grow a public health innovation ecosystem to increase the impact of our research.
Strategy: Bring geographically distributed experts together into a virtual health policy centre to advance evidence informed considerations of health in all policies.
Advancing public health through research excellence
The O'Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary supports academic scholars to tackle public health challenges, connecting them with health practitioners, citizens, governments, businesses, and non-governmental organizations when collective action is required.
The Institute's membership includes more than 500 multidisciplinary researchers from 17 Cumming School of Medicine departments and nine other University of Calgary faculties, such as Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, Kinesiology and Arts; health professionals in Alberta Health Services; and, research users and policy makers from municipal and provincial institutions.
Together, we are advancing public health through research excellence.