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Listen to Alan Forster, MD, and his team discuss how The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) developed a Just Culture. They describe the concept of a Just Culture, why TOH initiated this transformation, and some of its early impacts. Forster is the VP of Innovation and Quality at the TOH.   To view the article click  here .

An interview between Jody Early and authors, Kelly Bentley and Stephanie Swan, regarding the PHP 2019 Paper of the Year, "Service Learning: A Useful Pedagogy to Engage Community Health Education Students in a Resource Management and Grant Writing Course".

Listen to the podcast by Izabela Szelest and her team as they discuss Canada's opioid crisis and how it disproportionately affects people who use drugs alone at home. Szelest and her co-authors synthesized recent literature related to technology-enabled harm reduction strategies and corroborated their findings with key informants, including family members of people who use drugs and policy makers...

Listen to Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli's podcast as he talks about the importance of kindness and empathy and how these principles can improve health outcomes and reduce workplace stress and burnout.   To view the article click here .  

Listen to a podcast about TRAM, an initiative started by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Graham Boeckh Foundation. TRAM or the Transformational Research in Adolescent Mental Health (TRAM) initiative, was the first of the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research programs, providing $25 million over 5 years to foster collaboration and placing youth and their families at the centre o...

In this podcast for HMF's March issue, Lynn Roberts, Research Associate at Centre for Studies in Primary Care, interviews colleage Colleen Grady on her article entitled "Establishing learning objectives for a leadership skills development curriculum in family medicine".   To view the article, click  here .    

In this podcast for HMF's December 2018 issue, Alika Lafontaine, MD, FRCPC, interviews colleague Christopher Lafontaine, MEd, on their article entitled "A retrospective on reconciliation by design".   To view the article, click  here .

In this podcast for HMF's November 2018 issue, Philip DeSouza the Manager of Communications and Marketing at HIROC, interviews colleague Polly Stevens, the Vice President of Health Care Risk Management, on their article entitled "Questions Healthcare Boards Should Ask Senior Leaders About Risk".   To view the article, click here .  

In this podcast for HMF's September 2018 issue, Mary J. McNally, RN, the Chief Patient Experience Office at William Osler Health System, interviews colleagues Gurwinder Gill, Director of Health Equity and Inclusion at William Osler Health System, and Vin Berman, interim VP of Human Resources and Organizational Development at William Osler Health System,  on their article entitled "Effective Divers...

In this podcast for HMF's July 2018 issue, Asher Lurie, Communications Specialist at St. Elizabeth Health Care, interviews Paul Holyoke, PhD, Director of the St. Elizabeth Research Center, about his article entitled "Why some patients who do not need hospitalization cannot leave: A case study of reviews in 6 Canadian hospitals".    To view the article, click  here . 

In this podcast for HMF's May 2018 issue, Ron Lindstrom, PhD, FCCHL, former Editor in Chief of Healthcare Management Forum, Adjunct Professor in the School of Population and Public Health and an Associate Member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia, interviews Paul Mohapel, MSc, MA, PhD, President of Mohapel Consulting, concerning Paul's article entitled "T...

In this podcast for HMF's March 2018 issue, Jennifer Rees, the Lead Senior Consultant in The Engagement and Patient Experience Department, a section within Alberta Health Services (AHS), interviews Sarah Singh, a Senior Patient and Family Engagement Consultant at AHS, and Lona Leiran, co-chair of the provincial patient and family advisory group at AHS, concerning the article entitled "Patient and...

Theo Stickley discusses the Arts, Health and Wellbeing special issue which focuses on the important recent contributions and developments made in the understanding and possible implementation of how various activities in the arts can improve public health. Posted January 2018. Read the associated Special Issue here.

Dr. Kathleen Roe, DrPH, MPH, Editor-in-Chief of  Health Promotion Practice, reads her commentary "It Takes a Village", published in volume 19 issue 1 of HPP. 

In this podcast for HMF's January 2018 issue, Dr. Lynne Nakashima, PharmD, Provincial Pharmacy Director for BC Cancer, discusses her article "Evolution of cancer treatment and evolving challenges."    To view the article, click here . 

In this podcast for HMF's November 2017 issue, Kim de Haan, OT Reg., BHSc, MHM, and Kerrie Dewachter, RN, OT Reg., BHSc, BSc, MHM, discuss their article "Value agenda for heart failure model in Ontario: Application of the Porter model."    To view the article, click  here .

In this podcast for HMF's September 2017 issue, Dr. Peter Lachman, CEO of The International Society of Quality in Health Care, and Wendy Nicklin RN, President-Elect of ISQua, discuss their article "Effectively leading for quality."    To view the article, click  here .

In this podcast Dr. Gambescia, Editor in Chief of  Pedagogy in Health Promotion , interviews Dr. Kirsten Rodgers from Georgia College and State University, and Dr. Sarah Bass from Temple University concerning PHP's March 2017 issue on "The Contribution of Liberal Arts to Public Health Preprofessional Preparation". Dr. Rodgers and Dr. Bass authored two of the articles in this issue.  Click  here  t...

In this podcast Dr. Gambescia, Editor in Chief of Pedagogy in Health Promotion , interviews Dr. Melissa (Moose) Alperin and Dr. Tanya Uden-Holman concerning PHP's new special supplement entitled "U.S. Public Health Learning Network: Innovative Competency-Based Training for the Public Health Workforce". Dr. Alperin, Dr. Uden-Holman, and Dr. Kirsten Colbaugh Rodgers served as the guest editors for t...

In this podcast for HMF's July 2017 issue, Dr. Renate Ilse, Vice President, Clinical Programs at The Ottawa Hospital, discusses the article "Using structured incentives to increase value for money in an academic health sciences centre" with her coauthors Guy J. Hebert, MD, FRCPC, chair of the board of The Ottawa Hospital Academic Medical Organization (TOHAMO), Alan J. Forster, MD, FRCPC, MSc, Vice...

Professor Lisa Ackerley discusses the key issues regarding food safety as well as approaches to help tackle health problems such as obesity.  May 2017, Read the associated article here: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1757913917702604