Listen to the podcast by Tracee Pratt, Executive Director, Women’s Health Programs at Lois Hole Hospital and Sturgeon Community Hospital in Alberta and the Women’s Health Lead for the Edmonton Zone speak about the evolution and success of the robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) program in the OR, and the downstream benefits. Tracee will share insights into how they operationalized the RAS program to successfully achieve a zero-wait time for targeted gynecologic-oncology procedures. This session is mo...
Apr 22, 2025•42 min
Listen to the podcast with Don Juzwishin, PhD, FCCHL, and Dan Breznitz, PhD, as they provide more detail on CIFAR’s program on Innovation, Equity and the Future of Prosperity, and talk with author Jane Gingrich, PhD, about her work in the United Kingdom related to innovation strategies and how they shape citizens’ public health behaviours. In an era of rising nationalism, public authorities face the temptation to lean into national sentiment to encourage citizens to engage with public health pol...
Sep 25, 2024•44 min
Listen to the podcast by Rachelle Ashcroft, PhD, Associate Professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, and cross-appointed to the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, speak about a collaborative process she and her team enhance team-based primary care, drawing on experiences of six disciplines working together to create new curricula as part of Team Primary Care. They assert that building capacity requires an understanding of unique disciplinary...
Aug 14, 2024•31 min
Listen to the podcast with Helen Edwards, RN, MN, moderated by Dr. Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite, DBA, CHE, RN, as they talk about how technological advancements, like the Ivenix Infusion System, can be implemented in Canadian hospitals to support the seamless integration between infusion devices, electronic health records, and other hospital information systems, ultimately supporting the broader system of care. Helen Edwards is a clinical informatics consultant who has led initiatives focused on ident...
Feb 15, 2024•16 min
Listen to Vania Sakelaris, CHE, and her collaborators as they offer more context about the retrospective survey of 117 physician leadership development program graduates at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The survey was designed to assess how the program contributed to graduates’ leadership development, specifically in terms of behaviour change and work-related changes. It’s further proof that there are concrete benefits to investing in training ...
Nov 01, 2023•20 min
Listen to Peter Varga, CHE, Chief Transformation Officer at HealthHub Solutions, a Canadian leader in bedside digital health solutions, and Leslie Motz, CHE, Vice President of Patient Services at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, discuss the opportunities that digital solutions bring to healthcare and the importance of investing in digital solutions to advance healthcare system performance. To learn more about the platform and how to advance digital transformation, contact: s...
Feb 27, 2023•20 min
Gayle Walter and Ronica Rooks in conversation with Drs. Juliana Perez and William Leonard about their article, " Developing Equity-Focused Education in Academic Public Health: A Multiple-Step Model ", which appeared in the Pedagogy of Anti-racism special issue ( Volume 7, Issue 4 ). Read the full transcript here ....
Jan 06, 2023•32 min
Listen to Patrick Patterson, PhD, and Jenna Roddick, MSc, from the AGE-WELL National Innovation Hub APPTA in Fredericton, New Brunswick as they discuss how to maintain equitable access to virtual care following the pandemic. They conducted a narrative scoping review to understand barriers related to the sustained adoption of virtual primary care delivery, and can identify areas in which policy shifts are needed to drive digital innovation. View the article here....
Aug 08, 2022•16 min
Implicit bias is a topic many faculty/instructors may feel uncomfortable teaching and discussing with their students. In this podcast, Dr. Gayle Walter and Dr. Ronica Rooks, who currently serve on the editorial board of Pedagogy in Health Promotion , speak with Dr. Krista Mincey, an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine. Dr. Mincey's article, "Teaching about Bias to Undergraduate Students in an Introduction to Public Health Course" is featured ...
Jun 28, 2022•30 min
In conversation with Dr. Tyler Derreth- co-hosted by Dr. Ronica Rooks and Dr. Gayle Walter from the PHP Special Issue: The Pedagogy of Antiracism In this @PHP_SOPHE podcast, Dr. Ronica Rooks (@RonicaRooks) and Dr. Gayle Walter (@gwalter1409) talk with Dr. R. Tyler Derreth (@drderreth) about his paper with co-authors, Dr. Vanya Jones and Mindi B. Levin, entitled, “Preparing Public Health Professionals to Address Social Injustices Through Critical Service-Learning.” The authors discuss the importa...
Apr 28, 2022•33 min
Listen to the podcast by Health Cities where authors discuss Primary Care Networks within Central Alberta and how they partnered with a technology provider to rapidly implement Home Health Monitoring for patients with chronic diseases. The outcomes are very positive. Home health monitoring has the potential to alleviate the economic burden of chronic disease in Alberta, serving as the national standard for a rapid technological response to a pandemic. View the article here ....
Nov 01, 2021•16 min
Listen to the podcast with Dr. Bridget Duffy, moderated by Dr. Gurprit Randhawa, who has recently joined the First Nations Health Authority as the Director of eHealth & Virtual Care Innovation. Dr. Bridget Duffy, the Chief Medical Officer of Vocera Communications, discusses the Declaration of Principles designed to expand the definition of safety to include safeguarding psychological and emotional well-being of team members, promoting health justice by declaring equity and anti-racism as cor...
Oct 20, 2021•23 min
An interview with 2020 winner, Dr. Michael Harvey about his award-winning paper, "How Do We Explain the Social, Political, and Economic Determinants of Health? A Call for the Inclusion of Social Theories of Health Inequality Within U.S.-Based Public Health Pedagogy". Click Here to view the article.
Sep 30, 2021•41 min
Join a conversation with the Canadian Alcohol Use Disorder Society about a better treatment approach for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). AUD is a chronic relapsing disease that can be treated with a combination of pharmacotherapies and counselling. This approach provides hope to providers and patients that AUD is a treatable medical condition, while also averting significant costs to the healthcare system. To view the article, please click here ....
Aug 03, 2021•10 min
Listen to the podcast by Dr. Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, FAAN, moderated by Dr. Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite, DBA, CHE, as they talk about how health leaders can operationalize “the voice of the nursing workforce” and reduce cognitive overload for nurses. To view the article, please click here
Jun 15, 2021•34 min
In this podcast for HMF’s May issue, Larry Arshoff, President of Diagnosis, Solutions & Results Inc., interviews his co-authors on their article entitled "Laboratory medicine: The exemplar for value-based healthcare". To view the article, click here .
Apr 15, 2021•16 min
Listen to the podcast by Eileen Pepler, PhD, and guests as she emphasizes the need to view the intersection of public safety and public health through a new lens to break down the traditional information silos of the many agencies that serve vulnerable populations and the impact of inadequate community-based mental health services. To view the article click here .
Feb 23, 2021•19 min
Listen to the podcast by Reg Joseph, the CEO of Health City, as he discusses how Health City has worked with numerous stakeholders to develop new pathways of care that drive better outcomes and economic development in the health sector. He focuses on data, artificial intelligence and extended reality platforms. Health City is known for connecting industry and healthcare and focusing on innovation that can benefit both. To view the article, click here ....
Nov 27, 2020•14 min
Listen to the podcast by Allison Bodnar and Lisa Woodill, and moderated by Ken Tremblay, FCCHL, as they talk about the costing study results of the Community Pharmacist-led Anticoagulation Management Service and what it means for patients and system-level pharmacy care. To view the article click here .
Oct 22, 2020•16 min
Listen to the podcast by Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, FAAN, as she discusses how to reduce the cognitive load for nurses and other healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. To view the article, click here .
Sep 30, 2020•31 min
In this podcast for HMF’s May issue, Brandon Landry, Customer Success Coordinator at Molecular You, interviews Ash Anwar on his article entitled "Value-Based Healthcare Delivery Through Metabolomics-Based Personalized Health Platform”. To view the article, click here .
Apr 09, 2020•12 min
Listen to Dr. Craig Stephen as he talks about the link between the social and biophysical determinants of infectious disease outbreaks and the concept of ecosystem stewardship. Craig is the CEO of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative and a Professor at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. To view the article click here .
Mar 30, 2020•18 min
Listen to Trina Fyfe, PhD, and Geoffrey Payne, PhD, as they discuss how rural providers face challenges using clinical practice guidelines and outline a case study in British Columbia related to maternity care and the prevention of Rhesus D factor alloimmunization. Trina is a librarian and researcher at UNBC and Geoffrey is the Vice-President of Research at UNBC. To view the article click here .
Feb 21, 2020•9 min
In this podcast for HMF’s January issue, Nina Coutinho, Product Lead at Shopify, interviews Adam Kassam and Naila Kassam on their article entitled "Artificial intelligence in healthcare: A Canadian context”. To view the article, click here .
Dec 02, 2019•13 min
Listen to Alan Forster, MD, and his team discuss how The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) developed a Just Culture. They describe the concept of a Just Culture, why TOH initiated this transformation, and some of its early impacts. Forster is the VP of Innovation and Quality at the TOH. To view the article click here .
Aug 26, 2019•16 min
An interview between Jody Early and authors, Kelly Bentley and Stephanie Swan, regarding the PHP 2019 Paper of the Year, "Service Learning: A Useful Pedagogy to Engage Community Health Education Students in a Resource Management and Grant Writing Course".
Aug 20, 2019•18 min
Listen to the podcast by Izabela Szelest and her team as they discuss Canada’s opioid crisis and how it disproportionately affects people who use drugs alone at home. Szelest and her co-authors synthesized recent literature related to technology-enabled harm reduction strategies and corroborated their findings with key informants, including family members of people who use drugs and policy makers in the area of opioid use. To view the article click here ....
Jul 24, 2019•18 min
Listen to Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli’s podcast as he talks about the importance of kindness and empathy and how these principles can improve health outcomes and reduce workplace stress and burnout. To view the article click here .
Apr 23, 2019•25 min
Listen to a podcast about TRAM, an initiative started by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Graham Boeckh Foundation. TRAM or the Transformational Research in Adolescent Mental Health (TRAM) initiative, was the first of the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research programs, providing $25 million over 5 years to foster collaboration and placing youth and their families at the centre of integrated youth services. It lead to a pan-Canadian research and evaluation network with 14 sites...
Feb 22, 2019•28 min
In this podcast for HMF’s March issue, Lynn Roberts, Research Associate at Centre for Studies in Primary Care, interviews colleage Colleen Grady on her article entitled "Establishing learning objectives for a leadership skills development curriculum in family medicine”. To view the article, click here .
Feb 22, 2019•8 min