Restoring the health research system: Strengthening Canada's health research system after the COVID-19 pandemic
OTTAWA, ON, April 11, 2024 (Globe Newswire) — The RSC has released its latest report titled 'Recovering the health research system: Strengthening Canada's health research system after the COVID-19 pandemic.' Announced. or solve the health emergency by outlining how to comprehensively restructure Canada's health research system.
Working group co-chair Dr. Sharon Strauss of the University of Toronto's FRSC said: “We have an opportunity to rebuild and develop Canada's health research system to strengthen our health system, embed health in all our policies, and rebuild trust in science” and improve health. With input from the public, funders, researchers, institutional leaders, policymakers, and decision-makers, we developed 12 practical recommendations.
“These include prioritizing equity, diversity, and anti-racism in research activities and processes; strengthening coordination of research and research priorities across the country; funding, including peer review; Rethinking processes. Investing in researchers, engaging patients and building capacity on how to leverage research evidence. Breaking down barriers to Indigenous-led health research. Producing innovative and useful research.
“All of us in Canada can do these things and play a role in making our health research system more agile, innovative, diverse, inclusive, equitable and resilient.”
This report was developed with input from diverse stakeholders and focused on public and patient engagement in research, which is essential to advancing research and rebuilding trust in science. It became a theme.
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The RSC Task Force on COVID-19, established by the President of the Royal Society of Canada in April 2020, provides an evidence-based perspective on the key societal challenges in responding to and recovering from COVID-19. is tasked with providing the following. The taskforce has established a series of working groups to rapidly produce policy briefings, with the aim of providing evidence to policy makers to inform decisions.
About the Royal Society of Canada
Founded in 1882, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) is comprised of the Academies of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences, the Academy of Sciences, and the RSC College. The RSC recognizes excellence, advises government and the larger society, and works with other national academies in Canada and around the world to promote a culture of knowledge and innovation.
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CONTACT: Paige Beveridge The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada (613) 991-6990 pbeveridge@rsc-src.ca
