Research Projects

Engaging Families to Build Healthy Communities – Winter 2022 to Winter 2024 [COMPLETED]

Engaging Families to Build Healthy Communities focuses on family and community resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.  Specifically, this study explored what factors families think helped and continue to help them build resilience, which factors hinder their resilience, and what solutions they imagine may improve the resilience and well-being of families like themselves.

To learn more about this research visit the Engaging Families to Build Healthy Communities page


Engager les familles pour bâtir des communautés saines - Hiver 2022 au Hiver 2024 [COMPLÉTÉ]

Engager les familles pour bâtir des communautés saines se concentre sur la résilience des familles et des communautés dans le contexte de la pandémie de COVID-19 et au-delà. Plus précisément, cette étude a exploré les facteurs que les familles pensent avoir aidés et continuent de les aider à renforcer leur résilience, les facteurs qui entravent leur résilience et les solutions qu'elles imaginent susceptibles d'améliorer la résilience et le bien-être des familles comme elles. 

Pour en savoir plus sur cette recherche, visitez la page Engager les familles pour bâtir des communautés saines.

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Walking Together: a community-academic co-design approach to implementing an Indigenous patient navigator in primary care – Spring 2024 to Spring 2026

Walking Together uses co-design and community based participatory action research with a team that includes Indigenous researchers and an Indigenous oversight circle. The team will design, implement and evaluate an Indigenous patient navigator role in primary care to improve cultural safety and patients' experiences for Indigenous primary care patients.

Data collection in the form of 'Key Informant Interviews' is currently underway after a rigorous literature review on Indigenous Patient Navigation in primary care and Indigenous self-identification in health care. During Winter 2025, the research team will conduct Sharing Circles with the urban Indigenous community in Kingston to identify unmet needs, qualities, values and priorities for an Indigenous Patient Navigator role, and perspectives on self-identification.