Table 1.
Overview of the 12 CBPHC teams
| Nominated principal investigator (Project Name) | Location(s) | Study population | Area(s) of focus | Research and/or innovation project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall Godwin (Atlantic Canada Children’s Effective Service Strategies -Mental Health (ACCESS-MH)) | Atlantic Canada (ie, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland) International Partner in New Zealand |
Children and youth, parents, and service providers | Autism spectrum, conduct, and eating disorders among children and youth | Assuming a broad social sciences approach for each condition using Patient Journeys/Process Mapping, Operations Research and Statistical analysis of complex databases to understand and explore how children and youth access treatment and services across multiple health systems such as the health and education systems |
| Eva Grunfeld (Canadian Team to Improve Community-Based Cancer Care along the Continuum (CanIMPACT)) | British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador International partners in the United States, Australia, and Denmark |
Breast and colorectal cancer patients and health care providers | Cancer journey with a special focus on breast cancer for vulnerable populations (ie, older adults, individuals living in rural, remote or northern areas, low- income groups, and immigrants) | Exploring multiple perspectives in the cancer journey, conducting an environmental scan to enhance integration of care between primary care and cancer specialist care, and developing and testing an intervention to improve care coordination for patients with cancer (Grunfeld, 2017; Grunfeld and Petrovic, 2017) |
| Jeannie Haggerty (Innovative Models Promoting Access-to-Care Transformation (IMPACT)) | Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta International Partners in Australia (ie, New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria) |
Socially vulnerable patients living in highly deprived neighbourhoods who have low language proficiency, social support, health literacy, or used emergency services within the past year for minor treatment | Access to care for vulnerable populations | Identifying and evaluating primary health care-based innovations to improve access to primary health care for vulnerable groups and determining the effectiveness and scalability of innovations |
| Stewart Harris (TransFORmation of IndiGEnous PrimAry HEAlthcare Delivery (FORGE AHEAD)) | British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland | First Nations communities | Chronic disease management (ie, type two diabetes mellitus) | Developing and evaluating community-inspired and culturally relevant primary health care models to improve access to services as well as enhancing the spread of successful innovations for First Nations communities in Canada |
| Janusz Kaczorowski (The Canadian Chronic Disease and Awareness Program (C-ChAMP)) | Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec International partner in the Philippines |
Vulnerable populations, French-speaking communities, South Asian communities, and patients without a family physician | Prevention and management of chronic disease among various populations and settings with a particular focus on cardiovascular health | In follow-up to the success of the Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program (CHAP), a program called Canadian Chronic Disease Awareness and Management Program (C-ChAMP) has been developed to be applied among various populations and settings and optimal conditions for implementation will be identified to sustain the project Canada-wide and internationally |
| Alan Katz (Innovation Supporting Transformation in Community-Based Primary Healthcare Research Project (iPHIT)) | Rural and remote Manitoba First Nations | Northern and Southern First Nation communities in Manitoba | Primary health care within First Nations communities | Transforming primary health care through the perspectives and suggestions for innovations of First Nation communities based on their health and needs |
| Claire Kendall (Living with HIV (LHIV) Innovation Team) | Manitoba, Ontario, Newfoundland, and Labrador | People living with HIV | HIV care within community-based settings | Improving HIV care by implementing eHealth technologies, enhancing the patient experience and self-management and recognizing necessary measures to promote a more integrated primary care model |
| Jenny Ploeg, Maureen Markle-Reid (Aging, Community, Health and Research Unit (ACHRU) | Alberta and Ontario | Older adults with multiple chronic conditions, family caregivers, and health care professionals | Multiple chronic conditions and type two diabetes mellitus among community-based older adults | Community Partnership Program for older adults with diabetes and multimorbidity (Markle-Reid et al., 2018). |
| Moira Stewart (Patient Centred Innovations for Persons with Multimorbidity (PACE in MM)) | Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick International Partners in Belgium, France, Argentina, and Singapore |
Patients with multi-morbidities aged 18–80 | Chronic disease prevention and management | Identifying responsible factors for the success or failure of current initiative in chronic disease care, testing and comparing new innovations in two or more jurisdictions, and promoting scaling up of innovations |
| Walter Wodchis (implementing integrated Care for Older Adults with Complex Health needs (iCOACH)) | Quebec and Ontario International partner in New Zealand |
Chinese communities, low-income seniors, French-speaking communities, clinically complex groups, and populations in Maori (ie, Indigenous and rural, mixed Maori and European, and primarily European) | Scaling up successful intervention in primary health care for older adults with complex needs | Designing and implementing innovative models in primary health care for older adults with complex needs across three jurisdictions and evaluate the contextual factors that influence the success or failure of the programs |
| Sabrina Wong (Transforming Community-Based Primary Healthcare through Comprehensive measurement and reporting (TRANSFORMATION) | British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia | Organizational leads, health care providers, and patients from family physician practices | Community-based primary health care performance measurement and health care equity | Developing a comprehensive primary health care-based framework for performance measurement and reporting of contextual information related to the spread and uptake of primary health care innovations and strategies |
| Kue Young (The Circumpolar Health System Innovation Team (CircHSIT) | The Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Labrador | Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups | Primary health care in remote northern communities | Transforming primary health care in remote northern communities by designing, implementing, and evaluating health systems intervention and innovations in technology |
See Canadian Institutes of Health Research website for more information on the teams http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/50370.html.