Over 6.5M Canadians don’t have access to primary care. The OurCare report, led by Dr. @Tara_Kiran, family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and scientist at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, aims to address this. She talks with us about OurCare and her hopes for how it will shape primary care. 1/2

A new study from researchers at St. Michael's Hospital's MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions published in The BMJ looks to better understand race's role in the toxic drug crisis. The study found distinct differences between racialized groups in Ontario. Tara Gomes sudbury.com/local-news/tor…

New: Study finds rate of opioid toxicities increased 4-fold across Ontario following pandemic restrictions, with the majority of this increase among people w/ opioid use disorder. Read the study ices.on.ca/publications/j… ODPRN Mina T. Ahmed Bayoumi Tara Gomes International Journal of Drug Policy

Part of our work in the CHILD study is to understand the experiences of children and their #caregivers in accessing social care. Our goal is to map local resources and co-design an intervention to improve health and social services. upstreamlab.org/project/child-…

How does race impact the drug crisis in Ontario? New research by St. Michael's Hospital's MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions looks to answer that question. Tonya Campbell, researcher at ODPRN and one of the study's authors, talks about the findings with Toronto Star: thestar.com/news/canada/on…

📢 Join Digital Health Canada for a webinar on 'Achieving Health Data Liberation: Inter-operability and Community Governance of Health Data in Canada' featuring Dr. Andrew Pinto.

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Ontario is in the midst of a drug crisis. These 7 charts tell us who’s being hit hardest.

New research looking at four years of opioid overdose deaths in Ontario offers a revealing glimpse of the face of these victims. trib.al/FvUODSj

Those experiencing homelessness are having a significant impact on emergency rooms in Canada. St. Michael's Hospital's physicians Carolyn Snider, Sahil Gupta, Stephen Hwang talk with The Globe and Mail about the issue and the changes that need to be made.
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Thanks to molly hayes for her in-depth investigation of a key health concern in Canada. Thank-you for featuring the ED projects and homelessness research Unity Health Toronto and MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions. Sahil Gupta Stephen Hwang

Congratulations, Anna Dare, researcher at Unity Health Toronto, for receiving CIHR's Health System Impact Embedded Early Career Researcher Award! Dare will receive $800k over four years to study social determinants of health in cancer outcomes. canada.ca/en/institutes-…

At Upstream Lab, based at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Unity Health Toronto, our research is driven by the desire to promote health equity and address #SDOH . We are #hiring a Research Data Analyst to support projects focused on leveraging data to improve health systems. ➡️ recruiting.unityhealth.to/ltmprod/xmlhtt…

Two new synthetic opioids—that are 10 and 20 times stronger than fentanyl—have been found in Toronto’s unregulated drug supply. Karen McDonald, lead of Toronto's Drug Checking Service (Toronto's Drug Checking Service) at St. Michael's Hospital, discusses with CBC. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Reminder: Join Unity Health Toronto, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions and CU-CERCH today at noon for 'When Race Correction meets AI.'

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Federal funding for free HIV self-testing kits is set to stop at the end of March. Dr. Sean B. Rourke, neuropsychologist and scientist at St. Michael's Hospital's MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, says it's been an 'incredible success' and it 'doesn't make any sense' to end it. cbc.ca/player/play/23…

Dr. Sean B. Rourke, scientist at St. Michael's Hospital MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, spoke to CBC News about the launch of OurHealthBox in Winnipeg and how it collects data to better serve the community’s needs. bit.ly/43kxOgC

I’m honoured to be among this year’s recipients of the EPIC Future Leaders Prize! Thank you to U of T Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium for this distinction and for recognizing my #PhD work on HPV vaccines in gay and bisexual men. U of T Public Health MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions

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A new study from MAP found stark differences between ethno-racial groups in Ontario when looking at circumstances surrounding opioid overdose deaths, as well as in the use of harm reduction tools and access to treatment. Read more: maphealth.ca/rising-opioid-…

Winnipeg now has an Our Healthbox! Developed by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital's MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, the vending machine will distribute free needs including naloxone kits, HIV tests and smudge kits. The box can be found at NorWest Co-op. winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2…

By providing health supplies to clients, Winnipeg's new Our Healthbox at NorWest Co-op will free time up for staff, allowing them to focus on other important tasks, says Dr. Sean B. Rourke, scientist at St. Michael's Hospital's MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions & project leader
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