Dr. Michael J. Strong, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and CIHR’s Governing Council, announced today the appointment of Dr. Jane Rylett as the new Scientific Director of CIHR’s Institute of Aging (CIHR-IA). This appointment will be effective August 1, 2019. 

Dr. Rylett is a Distinguished University Professor and currently serves as an Associate Dean in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University. She is a Scientist in the Molecular…

Read the CIHR Institute of Aging new Strategic Plan here: http://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/51447.html 

Join us for our April CLSA Webinar: 2019 Update on the CLSA: What’s new and what’s next for Canada’s leading research platform on health and aging

This webinar will be presented by Dr. Parminder Raina, lead principal investigator of the CLSA, and Dr. Yves Joanette, scientific director of the CIHR Institute of Aging, via WebEx.

Now in its third wave of data collection, the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) research platform has established itself as a leading resource for investigating…

New opinion piece by Dr. Heather Keller (Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition and Aging, and a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, at the University of Waterloo) on the new Canadian Food Guide.

Read the full piece here: https://ipolitics.ca/2019/02/21/new-food-guide-well-designed-for-the-healthy-but-those-with-frailty-and-chronic-illnesses-need-different-approach/?fbclid=IwAR2fpA1c6F1cWVwUfCP8UIz3_L0rJb7Yourl4Eb9gVQgAFSDVDSDk-9qAx0

We are introducing two new requirements for all submissions to Implementation Science, which take effect February 1, 2019.

'Contributions to the literature' - a new article section

Beginning February 1, 2019, we will require all manuscripts submitted to Implementation Science include a bulleted statement describing what the paper, if published, would add to the literature in implementation science.

The statement should consist of three to five bullet points of no more than 100 words. Authors…

The federal government is phasing out a 30-year-old funding program known for connecting teams of scientists across Canada and encouraging them to work together in key areas of biomedical and environmental research, The Globe and Mail has learned.

On Thursday, Science Minister Kirsty Duncan is expected to reveal that the government will eventually discontinue supporting the entities that are collectively known in Canada’s research landscape as Networks of Centres of Excellence. The category…

Canadian Frailty Network recently commissioned a report from the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) exploring this issue. The NIA/CFN report We Can’t Address What We Don’t Measure Consistently: Building Consensus on Frailty in Canada, authored by Dr. Samir Sinha, Allan McKee, Ivy Wong, Julie Dunning, Michael Nicin, and Dr. John Muscedere, shows that frailty is a common condition more prevalent in older populations, which increases an individual’s risk of falls, emergency department visits,…

by Russell Mannion and Judith Smith

Contemporary health policies frequently invoke notions of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural change’ as levers for achieving performance improvement and good-quality healthcare.1 But it has remained unclear whether talk of culture is largely empty rhetoric or whether framing healthcare organisations in ‘cultural’ terms offers useful insights that might improve organisational processes and outcomes of care. When considering the role of organisational culture in…