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A podcast exploring the complex world of patient engagement and partnership, with hosts Jennifer Joh

13/07/2023

**New podcast episode!!**

Wondering how other health research teams navigate patient engagement and partnership? Have a listen to one team’s reflection as their multi-year project comes to an end...

“How did we do?” : A debrief on the role of Lived Experience Advisors in a healthcare research project

What exactly is the best way to engage patients in a healthcare research project? Well, it’s hard to say definitively. Funders like CIHR often require patient involvement, but very little direction is provided beyond general frameworks and guiding principles. Often project teams just have to sort ...

13/06/2023

New episode!!!! Spring Update 2023: Checking in with Jen and Em

It’s been a while since we’ve published an episode! We have lots on the go these days. Come hang out with Jen and Em as we wrap up the Health Policy series and share what’s next.

It’s been a while since we’ve published an episode! We have lots on the go these days. Come hang out with Jen and Em as we wrap up the Health Policy series and share what’s next. [download transcript] Contact us to book an exploratory conversation about how podcasting can support community out...

16/02/2023

New episode in our Health Policy Series!!!

Beyond Mandates: The Essential Input of Residents in Long-term Care Policy

A widely-held assumption is that all residents of Long-term Care (LTC) homes are frail, elderly and in need of sweeping protections as determined by government, policy-makers and LTC home management. The reality, however, is that residents of LTC homes comprise a diverse demographic and have a wide range of needs, interests and concerns.

To help address this diversity of needs and interests, resident populations in each home are represented by provincially mandated Residents' Councils. Each home has a Council (made up of residents who are interested and capable of participating) that convenes regularly and is tasked with collecting the feedback of residents, which ultimately is supposed to inform LTC home policy and management. However, there are many potential barriers to these Councils performing effectively and meaningfully.

This is where the Ontario Association of Residents' Councils (OARC) comes in. The OARC supports local Residents' Councils to communicate and perform with more impact, and also works to amplify the voices and interests of LTC residents at provincial policy-making tables.

Two of our guests, Gale and Devora, each live in a Long-term Care home in Ontario and are vocal advocates for giving residents a more meaningful voice in the development and application of policies that affect them and their co-residents. Gale and Devora lead their own local Residents' Councils and are active members within the OARC. Our third guest, Dee Tripp, is the Executive Director of the OARC.

In this episode, we discuss the realities of living in Long-term Care from residents' perspectives, and the impact of living with policies and restrictions they may not have had a say in making. We also talk about what needs to change in order for residents' voices to become better integrated into LTC policy-making.

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A widely-held assumption is that all residents of Long-term Care (LTC) homes are frail, elderly and in need of sweeping protections as determined by government, policy-makers and LTC home management. The reality, however, is that residents of LTC homes comprise a diverse demographic and have a wide....

15/12/2022

New episode in our Health Policy Series! Critical Reflections on Public Engagement, featuring the voices of Rhonda C. George, Joanna Massie, Genevieve Fuji Johnson (she/her), Katherine Boothe, Alana Cattapan - and us!

We’re bringing conference vibes to the podcast and presenting a short series of critical work on public engagement from members of the Public Engagement in Health Policy team. We noted themes of: community exclusion from formal engagement processes; misalignment of goals; questions of legitimacy; and challenges of conducting community-engaged research in institutional settings.

If you’re interested in critical work on public engagement, this episode (and the previous one with Dr. Michener's keynote) is an excellent summary of a stellar conference!

We’re bringing conference vibes to the podcast and presenting a short series of critical work on public engagement from members of the Public Engagement in Health Policy team. We noted themes of: community exclusion from formal engagement processes; misalignment of goals; questions of legitimacy; ...

23/11/2022

New episode in our Health Policy series: Understanding Legitimacy in Public and Patient Engagement, with Katherine Boothe

What makes an engagement process legitimate? How do technical experts feel about engagement, and how have their ideas of legitimacy changed over time? These are just some of the questions we explore with our guest, Katherine (Katie) Boothe, Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at McMaster University.

A recent paper of Katie’s, “Redefining Legitimacy in Canadian Drug Assessment Policy? Comparing Ideas Over Time” seeks to understand how and when people’s ideas of legitimacy change when lay members are added to otherwise ‘expert only’ committees. In this case, the context is Canadian drug assessment advisory committees, where a group of technical experts and lay members help to determine what pharmaceutical drugs should be covered by public drug insurance policies.

Join us for this fascinating conversation exploring how public and patient engagement challenges pre-existing standards of what constitutes “good” scientific evidence, and how (unarticulated) differing rationales and goals for engagement can lead to frustration and disappointment.

What makes an engagement process legitimate? How do technical experts feel about engagement, and how have their ideas of legitimacy changed over time? These are just some of the questions we explore with our guest, Katherine (Katie) Boothe, Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at....

18/09/2022

New episode! Health Policy Series: Deliberation, Democracy and Public Engagement, A Conversation with Kim McGrail

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Kim McGrail is the Scientific Director of Health Data Research Network, a CIHR funded initiative whose work in the health data space has implications for, well, everyone living in Canada. And they’re keen to involve the public not just in getting input, but in providing guidance into key decisions. HDRN’s work is both technical and somewhat conceptual: their aim is to support researchers to better access health data for research from multiple sources and regions, while respecting local, regional and Indigenous rights, cultural practices and laws.

Public engagement in this context may seem straightforward, but it’s hardly so. In this episode, we talk through some of HDRN’s challenges and opportunities related to understanding public concerns related to collection, use and sharing of health data. Although we touch on some of the operational and technical details of HDRN’s work, our primary focus is on the use of deliberation as an engagement approach. And how it’s difficult to talk about engagement at a pan-Canadian level without also considering democratic ideals and how we might navigate living together as a diverse society.

Kim McGrail is the Scientific Director of Health Data Research Network, a CIHR funded initiative whose work in the health data space has implications for, well, everyone living in Canada. And they’re keen to involve the public not just in getting input, but in providing guidance into key decisions...

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