Congratulations to the researchers funded through the Knowledge Mobilization in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment competition

Canada is home to world-class researchers who are making discoveries with the potential to improve the lives of people living with diabetes. However, these research findings can only make a difference if we share them with the right people, including health care providers, people living with diabetes and their communities, people at risk of diabetes, and policymakers.

The Knowledge Mobilization in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment operating grants, led by the CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes, in partnership with Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF), provide researchers and knowledge users the opportunity to work together to use research evidence to improve health services, programs, and policies.

The goal of this funding opportunity is to enhance knowledge mobilization in the field of diabetes, focusing on evidence integration into health services, programs, and policies, and to:

  • Increase and enhance bi-directional mobilization of knowledge and integration of evidence into policies and practices related to diabetes prevention, remission, screening, diagnosis, management, treatment, and delivery of care for all types of diabetes as well as screening and prevention of diabetes complications.
  • Support researchers and knowledge users in the development and implementation of a knowledge mobilization plan to address a health system priority and/or identified evidence needs or gaps.
  • Facilitate uptake of evidence to improve the lives of people at risk of or living with diabetes in Canada.

Grants have been awarded to the following researchers and knowledge users:

Anne-Sophie Brazeau, McGill University - Integrating an online training platform into type 1 diabetes clinical care to empower self-management (Support implementation) (With support from Breakthrough T1D Canada)

David J Campbell, University of Calgary - Working Towards Novel Policy Solutions to Address Diabetes Among People Experiencing Homelessness

Kaberi Dasgupta, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre - Legal Framework and Impact Analyses: Groundwork for a Diabetes Prevention and Remission Program in Quebec

Padmaja R Kaul, University of Alberta - Advisory group of adult patients and caregivers of children and youth with type 1 diabetes mellitus (AURORA) Study

Jonathan P Little, University of British Columbia - Remission Possible: Harnessing Innovative Social Media Strategies to Make Remission of Type 2 Diabetes Possible Across Canada

Valeria E Rac, University Health Network - Connecting Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programs in Ontario. Mobilizing Knowledge across the Health System (With support from Breakthrough T1D Canada)

Julie Robitaille, Université Laval - Optimisation d'un parcours de soins pour la prise en charge de la santé en post-partum des personnes ayant développé un diabète gestationnel

Peter A Senior, University of Alberta - Freedom and Flexibility - Communicating the Experiences of Beta Cell Replacement to Patients and Providers (With support from Breakthrough T1D Canada)

Diana T Sherifali, McMaster University - Demystifying Diabetes Remission: A Knowledge Mobilization Opportunity

Kelly Skinner, University of Waterloo - Mobilizing opportunities to strengthen gestational diabetes prevention and management in the ISR, NWT using a public health approach

Liris P Smith, Yukon University - Yukon Experiences in Management of Type One Diabetes: Patient and Provider Perspectives (With support from Breakthrough T1D Canada)

Ian S Zenlea, Trillium Health Partners - Supporting High School Students with Type 1 Diabetes: Mobilizing Experiential Knowledge to Combat Diabetes-Related Stigma (With support from Breakthrough T1D Canada)

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