2017-18 recipients
The following Emerging Leaders in Health Promotion Grant Program projects received funding in 2017-18.
Integrating Health Living for New Canadians/CHANGE McDougall Family Program
With her 2017-18, multi-partner/collaborator Emerging Leaders in Health Promotion project (“Integrating Healthy Living for New Canadians/CHANGE McDougall Family Program”), Dr. Finola Hackett learned that “collaborating with a community, with individuals and families directly, is a very rewarding approach to health promotion: it need not be grandiose, on a society-wide scale, but rather can be incremental, in the forging of joyful and warm relationships …”
Raising awareness of pelvic floor disorders among refugee and immigrant women
It took an Emerging Leaders in Health Promotion project to bridge a gap that had stubbornly persisted in health care service delivery to refugee and immigrant women, despite the well-intentioned and collaborative partnership of the Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative and the Royal Alexandra Hospital’s Urogynecology Clinic.
No falls this Fall, or any other season
With her Emerging Leaders in Health Promotion project – No Falls This Fall, or Any Other Season – Dr. Ellina Lytvyak identified a sector of seniors’ population that is deemed to have an even higher risk of falls, and that is vulnerable populations, including foreign-born seniors. This population often lives alone, with inadequate access to health care and experiences language barriers that prevent the understanding of health promotion efforts in a foreign language.
Psychiatric Perceptions: What is psychiatry in the 21st century? - An educational podcast
Recipient(s): Dr. Jaylynn Arcand, Dr. Jonathan Dornian, Dr. Sheila Acharya
Project description: The purpose of this project is to create a podcast that will educate the public about how mental health issues impact patients, their families and their communities, and how psychiatrists work to address these issues. The end goal is to provide clarification for misconceptions that arise from the disconnect between the public's general knowledge and actual psychiatric practice.
‘Street Sense’: A high school program promoting informed decision-making regarding drug and opioid use
Recipient(s): Chu Yang Lin
Project description: Street Sense is a project that aims to address the increase in opioid-related hospitalizations in youths by filling in the gaps of the current high-school education curriculum. The theme of the project will be one of harm reduction, rather than solely drug-use deterrence. He project aims to target inner-city high school students in Edmonton.
Doctors Against Tragedies
Recipient(s): Dr. Michiko Maruyama
Project description: This project aims to raise awareness of fentanyl-related deaths and to educate the public on both the negatives and positives of fentanyl use. An age-appropriate game titled ‘Doctors Against Tragedies’ (based on the popular games, Cards Against Humanities and Minecraft) will be created with facts related to fentanyl-related deaths incorporated into the game. The game will be available in a physical form, as well as online, and will be targeted to elementary, high school and university students.
Play, Learn, Teach! Part 2!
Recipient(s): Dr. Michiko Maruyama
Project description: The main purpose of the project is to teach children about their health condition and treatment plan through an innovative and creative approach. The project aims to have educational toys designed to promote health and disease prevention to children. The toys will be focused on medical fields including, but not limited to: general surgery, plastic surgery and oncology.
