Leading in Changing Times: SFU Program Tackles Systemic Inequities – the Tyee
The Leadership Essentials Certificate program aims to decolonize traditional leadership approaches. Kim Mah December 13, 2021 | TheTyee.ca From the Black Lives Matter movement to growing calls for reconciliation, Canada is facing a racial reckoning like never before. But how equipped are today’s leaders to address systemic inequities in their workplace culture? A new leadership development program at […]
Leading in Changing Times: SFU Program Tackles Systemic Inequities – TYEE
Community engagement in public health emergency preparedness
J Takacs, M Ciotti, S Tsolova, E Wiltshire, A Baka, J Kinsman, D de Vries, L Cremers, M Rios, J Angrén European Journal of Public Health, Volume 29, Issue Supplement_4, November 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz186.514 Abstract Background Communities that could be affected by infectious disease outbreaks are increasingly recognised as resources that may be effectively utilized by the authorities during public health emergencies.Methods This case study […]
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
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December 2021
Some highlights: The Tyee: Who Died in B.C.’s Heat Dome? Closing the Gaps: Advancing Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery for Older Adults – https://bc.healthyagingcore.ca/sites/default/files/2020-12/CRC_WhitePaper_EN.pdf Rural citizen-patient priorities for healthcare in British Columbia, Canada: findings from a mixed methods study – Kornelsen et al. BMC Health Services Research (2021) Click on the download button, or scroll through the screenshots. […]
Sicamous Community Health Centre
https://www.sicamous.ca/live-here/community-health-centre Contact the Sicamous Community Health Centre Phone: 250-836-2817 | Fax: 250-836-2867 | Email: sicamousmedical@gmail.com FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What is a CHC? A Community Health Centre (CHC) is a model of health service delivery. CHCs are governed locally, either by a municipality or not-for-profit, and are different than a private medical clinic that requires the physician to undertake the administration of operating […]
Foundry – Virtual services for people ages 12 – 24 and their care-givers
Alphabet – Articifical Intelligence
Alphabet is launching a company that uses AI [Articifical Intelligence] for drug discovery [Excerpt] A new Alphabet company will use artificial intelligence methods for drug discovery, Google’s parent company announced Thursday. It’ll build off of the work done by DeepMind, another Alphabet subsidiary that has done groundbreaking work using AI to predict the structure of […]
INNOVATIONS
What’s known and unknown about Omicron, the coronavirus variant identified in South Africa
By Andrew Joseph Nov. 26, 2021 Scientists in South Africa have identified a new coronavirus variant with a worrisome combination of mutations that experts fear could make it more transmissible and allow it to evade immune protection — including the protection generated by vaccines. Experts are scrambling to learn more about the variant, known by […]