Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Factors such as education, income level, employment status, gender, ethnicity, and immigration status significantly impact people's health and wellness. As a result, variations in health outcomes are created. In addition, since the extent of the variations are impacted by the individual's unique circumstances including birth place, work and living environments, and age solutions to overcoming these variations must be driven by local change agents. Accordingly, this planning grant proposes to bring together community members from resource-poor neighborhoods, health system leaders, clinicians, and researchers to outline a research agenda with equity as its main focus. Our main goal is to improve equitable access to health care services. Our project will be executed in three phases: 1)Problem identification and equity-focused research question generation; 2)Prioritization of the question; and 3)Sharing our approach, experience, and findings with other communities. This planning grant will provide important equity-focused research questions and inspire community-driven solutions to break down barriers to achieving equitable health outcomes. Lessons learned about our approach, tactics, outcomes, and tools will be shared with other health teams across Canada in the quest for an equitable system of health.