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About Us
Updated: April 3, 2008
History: The CIHR Cross Cultural Palliative NET is one of ten New Emerging Teams (NETs) across Canada funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). In 2004 the CIHR offered five years of support for the development and collaboration of ten multidisciplinary investigator teams in palliative research.
We are excited to be approaching our fifth and final year of the CIHR Cross Cultural Palliative NET with researchers from the University of British Columbia, the University of Saskatchewan, Dalhousie University, Cancer Care Nova Scotia and the BC Cancer Agency.
Vision and Capacity Building:
- Expand research in palliative and end-of-life care.
- Encourage new research partnerships across disciplines.
- Train new researchers in the growing field of palliative care.
- Act as resource to the public, professionals, and decision-makers within government and regional health authorities.
Objective: Our objective is to share our research results with the goal of improving the health care system in caring for culturally diverse cancer patients. Culturally diverse populations are groups who may be characterized by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, geography, disabilities, and/or other vulnerabilities. We are also committed to building capacity in palliative research by:
- Strengthening intra and inter-institutional linkages to facilitate new investigators training.
- Developing new tools that inform with a cross-cultural perspective.
- Building partnerships amongst academics, health practitioners, policy-makers and community representatives to implement a Knowledge Translation Interaction Approach that uses knowledge exchange to guide the process of turning research knowledge into practice.
- Mentoring Trainees to conduct innovative research using mixed methods, pilot projects in the community, and cross-provincial collaboration.
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