Building Innovation Capacity in Pedeatric Healthcare Practice through Design-Thinking: Converting the Public Sector Innovation Lab model into Action with KidsAbility

Public healthcare organizations continuously struggle to innovate and respond to complex societal challenges and the evolving needs of society. Given the inherent risk and uncertainty associated with translating new innovations into practice, public healthcare organizations face severe challenges on transferring new knowledge of innovations from research into practice. This has led to a “quality gap” […]

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Caractérisation longitudinale de la composition du lait maternel

Peu de données et d’études sont disponibles sur la composition du lait maternel produit par une mère au-delà de la première année de vie de son bébé. Des données récentes tendent à démontrer que ce lait maternel serait d’intérêt nutritionnel avec un contenu appréciable facteurs immunoprotecteurs. Cependant, la majorité de ces études ont comparé la […]

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Facilitating Legislative and Regulatory Compliance in a Complex and Dynamic Healthcare Environment

The proposed project will help TOH rise to the challenges posed by this complex and dynamic environment by facilitating: (1) identification of compliance risk, (2) a risk-based approach to risk mitigation, and (3) targeted recommendations to effectively and efficiently close compliance gaps and ensure effective and meaningful reporting and monitoring of compliance risks based on […]

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Evaluation of the Ottawa Social Housing Network’s Shared Services Program

This project is an evaluation of the Ottawa Social Housing Network’s (OSHN) Shared Services Program. The OSHN is a non-incorporated member-based organization, made up of community housing providers and housing related organizations in Ottawa. The Social Housing Registry of Ottawa (the Registry) (https://www.housingregistry.ca/) is the sponsor of this project. The Registry has been in place […]

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Exosomes to prevent post-operative atrial fibrillation

Fifty thousand Canadians undergo open-chest heart surgery every year. Albeit effective at fixing heart disease, half of these patients slip into an abnormal heart rhythm called “atrial fibrillation”. Because atrial fibrillation increases the risk of heart failure and stroke, doctors are eager for therapies to keep post-operative patients in normal rhythm. Recently, we found that […]

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La présence d’autel portatifs dans les maisons et les bâtiments commerciaux en Grèce aux époques archaïques, classique et hellénistique

Mon projet vise à élaborer un répertoire des nombreux autels portatifs que l’on retrouve en Grèce. Pour ce faire, je les identifirai en décrivant leurs caractéristiques plastiques mais également leur contexte de découvertes. Je commencerai avec les autel retrouvé au site de Argilos, il y en aura une quinzaine à analyser. Par la suite, je […]

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Modélisation en Éléments Finis de la planche coréenne

La planche coréenne est une discipline de cirque présente dans presque tous les spectacles du Cirque du Soleil. Il s’agit d’une longue planche à bascule sur laquelle deux acrobates, placés à chaque extrémité, se catapultent continuellement pour effectuer des sauts acrobatiques. Les dimensions de l’équipement varient d’une compagnie à une autre, cependant, de nombreuses inconnues […]

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Blockchain Recordkeeping in healthcare services

The project aims to identify various usability factors and how they affect user’s perception of the trustworthiness of the blockchain-based record and their intentions to adopt this technology. The study also aims in increasing our current understanding of how usability affects users’ perception of the trustworthiness of blockchain technology for personal health data sharing. The […]

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Student Support for Level Up! Employment and Training

Resource Assistance for Youth is an organisation whose goal is to provide youth with complex needs the resources to navigate systemic barriers when facing homelessness or the risk of being homeless. Through the Level-Up Program, the organisation will achieve helping youth gain stable, long term employment who may be overlooked by other employment programs. By […]

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Skilled Migrants’ Involuntary Career Change: The role of Alternative Careers in Migrants’ Integration

While Canada welcomes many skilled migrants into our economy, some newcomers experience labour market challenges, and are pushed towards alternative career options. Thus, they decide to change their desired occupations or pursue new career paths in Canada. As a result, the purpose of this research is to gather information and learn more about skilled migrants’ […]

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Synergistic Effects of Psychological Risk Factors in Child and Youth Anxiety

Individual risks of anxiety are multi-dimensional such that multiple combined risks (biological, cognitive, and social risks) influence the susceptibility of anxiety. This research aims to explore individual risk factors that may increase the susceptibility of anxiety in a clinical sample of children and youth. From this study, we may develop a long standing partnership with […]

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