First Annual Meeting of the Community-based Primary Health Care (CBPHC) Innovation Teams

The CBPHC Innovation Teams are a flagship program of CIHR's CBPHC Signature Initiative, co-led by IHSPR and the Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH). The $33M investment made in April 2013 by CIHR and partners supported 12 world-class teams to lead highly innovative cross-jurisdictional research programs over the next five years to improve the delivery of high-quality CBPHC in Canada and internationally. The teams' research focuses on two priority areas within CBPHC, including improved chronic disease prevention and management and reduced inequities in access and health outcomes for vulnerable populations.

IHSPR and IPPH co-hosted the first annual team meeting on October 28th and 29th in Toronto, Ontario. The meeting brought together the researcher and decision maker leads of each team as well as the funding partners to create a forum for knowledge exchange and cross-team collaboration. Teams presented on their cross-jurisdictional programs of research, anticipated impacts, and highlighted key opportunities for cross-learning and collaboration in research, capacity building, knowledge translation and evaluation.

A special session to determine a common set of contextual and outcome measures for use by each team, led in partnership with the Canadian Institute for Health Information, helped to demonstrate the potential to optimize the cumulative learning of the teams and program overall and help to ensure that the teams' CBPHC delivery models are of relevance across diverse settings and contexts. To learn more about the 12 CBPHC Innovation Teams, visit the CBPHC Signature Initiative website.

Date modified:

2014-05-08