Grant: Fellowship: Health System Impact Fellowships - Central Canada 1 year

The objective of the proposed program of work is to advance existing partnerships and to forge new partnerships with provincial ministries and relevant community partners in order to establish a novel linked data infrastructure for health services and population health research, and policy evaluation. This program of work directly aligns with the Institute of Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences' (ICES) key priorities of strengthening strategic partnerships with external organizations, and in acquiring innovative data that is not traditional "health" data, like physician visits or hospital admissions. As such, this program of work will contribute to filling critical gaps in ICES' existing data holdings by addressing two key priorities (strategic partnerships and acquisition of novel community-level and socio-economic data), as well as advancing ICES' longstanding mission of drawing on high-quality data to produce trusted evidence that informs policy and improves health care and population health.