Research

The Institute for Public Health aims to improve health care delivery and population health through a shared research agenda and knowledge exchange between providers, Alberta Health Services researchers, and academic researchers to promote the implementation of new approaches resulting from joint research and knowledge transfer and exchange. The research, in turn, will have a positive impact on the health and well-being of the people of Calgary, Alberta, and Canada.

The Institute encompasses an ambitious agenda in population and public health and health service research - an agenda that is focused on systems (CIHR Pillar 3) and environments and populations (CIHR Pillar 4). There is a great diversity of research interests within these areas and as conducted by the members of the Institute.

The Institute is conceived as having a stewardship role, as being a collaborator and agent for population and public health research. It plays a complementary capacity-building role that will bolster the range, innovation, and ability to enhance individual research programs. The Institute, acting as a broker, will bring together people with common interests in a strategic and systematic way to improve interdisciplinary and intra- and inter-institutional collaborations essential to integrating research across pillars.

The Institute has three overarching themes to define its scope of research, and has initially constituted nine research groups to organizae the research areas of our members.