This project will support the creation of a cross-agency digital transformation plan. This intern will help reasearch potential opportunities and align with the business objectives of our agency while working with potential vendors as well to incorporate technical changes.

InnovaHealth is a dual-streamed Incubation and Acceleration platform offered by Innovative Canadians for Change (ICChange) that creates economic benefits by preparing entrepreneurs to launch disruptive, community-driven change in healthcare specifically in marginalized and underserved populations in Alberta. Disproportionately costly and inefficiently managed health disparities have been identified in Indigenous and low-income communities by the Alberta […]

We deal with condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of a selected electrical asset using deep learning. We propose an efficient predictive maintenance strategy for a selected electrical asset in order to optimize their life cycle costs. We will investigate the use of LSTM networks in order to predict the Remaining Useful Life RUL for the […]

This research project examines affordable housing options and experiences of those in greatest need. The regional Ottawa team is part of a national collaboration of researchers, practitioners, and community partners forming the “housing for those in greatest need” node of the CMHC-SSHRC Collaborative Housing Research Network of the National Housing Strategy. The national project examines […]

Small and rural areas are often disproportionately under-represented in the distribution of funds or access to resources, making it extremely valuable to have robust, current data to reflect the needs of these communities in order to advocate for funding or supports. COVID-19 has demonstrated the fragility of our current systems by impacting our capacity to […]

“Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing)” is a framework for bringing together different worldviews in search of mutual benefit. In partnership with the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON), this project is using an Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) approach to bridge Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) and Western science to inform locally relevant fisheries governance on Lake Huron. Using both knowledge systems, […]

academic sphere, and limit interactions with the stakeholder community. This project promotes meaningful collaboration for the co-construction of knowledge around Parkinson’s disease (PD), using the performing arts as an interactive tool for knowledge translation. Piece of Mind brings together researchers, performing artists, and persons affected by PD to create a performance piece based on scientific […]

Project involves data gathering and collection, analysis and subsequently using the results to devise an appropriate business model to sustain and scale up a new digital technology-smart phone enabled visual inspection with acetic acid (SEVIA). This technology was developed for the purpose of preventive screening of cervical cancer in women in low resource settings.

This project involves an opportunity to enhance on-line educational programming for the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre and also forge greater collaborations with other wildlife protection agencies and organizations in the province of Manitoba, in Canada, and/or internationally. Through this project a template will be designed for the Centre that will build connections between Manitoba educational curriculum […]

Different ways of seeing the world will be sought to help inform how we plan to live with the world. Landscapes, species, all need their ‘part’ of the world and this project will aim to bring indigenous ways of knowing and being into how we give part of the world to them. Various First Nations […]

The position of Zoonotics Officer will help in managing the care of wildlife patients and ambassadors at the Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre and lead the Wildlife Haven Hospital team in zoonotic compliance and protocol development. I will be in charge of any Zoonotic diseases on site, and enforce protocols ensuring the safety of staff/volunteers and […]

While we face a global pandemic with COVID-19, we look to our progress in HIV treatment and celebrate new medications that makes living with HIV/AIDS a reality for those with access. This was only a dream in the 1980s. However, HIV rates and HIV stigma remain high and stereotypes about who is susceptible to HIV […]