In honour of the 10th Annual Cochrane Canada Symposium, the Canadian Cochrane Centre and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research are pleased to present a top ten list of Cochrane Reviews that have helped clarify health questions that concern many of us. You can read about them here.
What's New
On May 16, 2012, the Government of Nova Scotia released the Mental Health and Addictions Strategy. The Strategy was developed in response to Mental Health and Addictions Strategy Advisory Committee’s report and recommendations
To learn more about the Strategy, please visit the Department of Health and Wellness website.
On Friday, May 25, 2012 at 2:30pm Dr. Nancy F. Olivieri will be giving The Global Reach of the Pharmaceutical Industry public talk.
The talk will take place in Room 1130, Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Avenue, Dalhousie University.
Several issues arising from the involvement of the pharmaceutical industry in medical research may uniquely affect patient health and safety in emerging countries.
Dr. Olivieri has been at the center of a continuing struggle involving the influence of the drug industry on scientific research. Dr. Olivieri received many awards acknowledging her role in this struggle, including The Nader Foundation’s The Callaway Award for Civic Courage, the Milner Memorial Award from the Canadian Association of University Teachers and the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award 2009 from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2003, Dr. Olivieri obtained a Masters in Medical Ethics and Law, from Kings’ College, London, UK, her thesis examined ethical dilemmas in medical research.
A new version of the Canadian Common CV will be implemented on June 19, 2012.
The purpose of the Canadian Common CV (CCV) is to reduce the workload for Canada’s research community by allowing researchers to maintain their CV data in a single repository and use it to apply to 22 different funding organizations across Canada.
In order to provide the research community with the best possible CV management tool, the CCV application was redeveloped to:
· Put in place a dataset that is common to all granting agencies;
· Provide a simpler and more portable application;
· Allow researchers to maintain a generic CV and select the data they want for a particular grant application;
· Use a new, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure.
The data for existing users will be migrated to the new application and Webinars and help tools will be available to assist the users. More detailed information will be provided in June, to further assist researchers with the new system.
Please visit the Renewal section of the CCV website where a FAQ is also available.
Start the discussion: The call for applications to the 2012-2013 CIHR Café Scientifique program is now underway.
Through this program, on an annual basis, CIHR establishes partnerships with non-profit organizations, universities, research centres, science centres and museums across Canada as a means to host informal events between experts and the general public about a particular health research subject of popular interest. If successful, these Café Scientifique partners can expect to receive $3,000 in funding to host their own Café. Applications are due no later than 8 p.m. (Eastern Time) on May 31, 2012. For further information about the funding opportunity and the evaluation criteria, please visit http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/39142.html.
The Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF) is pleased that the Mental Health and Addictions Strategy Advisory Committee released its report and recommendations on April 23rd, 2012.
For more information please click here.
We are accepting responses to our RFP for the design of our 2011-12 Annual Report. All responses must be submitted by Thursday, May 10, 2012.
To learn more about what we are looking for, submission requirments and how to contact us please review the RFP here.
Northwood will be holding it's 13th Annual Spring Conference & Pre-conference Research Symposium May 24 & 25, 2012.
The conference will be taking place at the Holiday Inn Harbourview. This year's conference objectives are:
• To identify the mental health needs of the Continuing Care population.
• To indentify how to recognize a mental health issue which needs to be addressed.
• To identify the current gaps in the provision of quality mental health care for the Continuing Care population.
• To identify what resources are required and what resources are available to address the mental health needs of this population
To learn more about the conference and to register, click here.