With Speaker: Dr. Paul Peters, Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences

This focus of this talk will be to discuss CIHR’s patient engagement / patient oriented / patient centres strategy and to offer some critiques from a social science lens. Over the past decade, CIHR has embarked on a massive strategy to include patients into the research process. In addition to the Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR), patient engagement has become a requirement of most funding applications. As with the move to knowledge mobilisation decades earlier, this process has been messy, and fraught with challenges. This talk will offer some critique of the patient engagement strategy in practice, drawing on the rich history in the social sciences of involving subjects throughout the research process. It is hoped that attendees can draw on their own experiences and provide additional feedback on this idea.

The CHAIM Brown Bag Series highlights the health research that is being done at Carleton University. Health researchers from many departments across campus will be featured.