Dr. Alexandra De Pokomandy named Scientific Codirector of the SSA-RUISSS McGill team. She will co-lead her team with a patient partner whose nomination is imminent. Her team will be composed of territorial antennas bringing together several expertises of the Unit.

the Unit ensures that Québec experts are brought together in teams to support research in learning health systems (LHS) in each of the territories attached to the Centres hospitaliers universitaires du Québec (CHU) associated with the universities of McGill, Montréal, Laval and Sherbrooke, namely the RUISSS.

The Community of Practice supports teams who wish to engage citizens, patients or caregivers in their projects or governance. It also offers training on patient partnership.

Learn about the 5 winners and watch the nominees' videos to discover exciting topics related to the Quadruple Aim and the Learning Health System.

Between February 18 and 20, 2022, the Unité de soutien SSA Québec, with the expertise of the firm Léger, administered a survey designed to question the population of Québec regarding the improvement of the health system and the sharing of their medical information

Clara Bolster-Foucault, a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at McGill University in Montreal, will study inequalities in disruptions to aging in place, such as disparities in admissions to long-term care facilities (CHSLDs), using TorSaDe, which provides researchers with data from a care trajectory cohort representative of the Quebec population.

The Indigenous Patient Circle of Quebec is an independent and self-determined community whose purpose is to provide a safe space for its members to share and to guide the implementation of the Unité de soutien SSA Québec's Indigenous Health Program.

Transparency- and consent-driven ethical framework designed to share research data.

Learning platform designed to link the queries of care and research teams with information systems specific to each data custodian. It allows data to be transmitted securely to other secure third-party systems through which the requesting unit can access it.

On April 9, 2021, Dr. Pierre Pluye, Professor at the Department of Family Medicine of McGill University, received the  NAGS Doctoral Teaching Award . This award recognizes excellence and creativity in teaching doctoral students (in all scientific disciplines across Canada and the United States), as well as innovation in the development and implementation of graduate programs. The […]

More security and privacy The research community in Quebec has special access to microdata from ISQ surveys, in particular the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), as well as administrative data from different ministries through the Centres d’accès aux données de l’Institut de la statistique du Québec (CADRISQ). These sites allow researchers to consult data in […]

As of April 2020, the ReaffectMD platform, developed in collaboration with the Data Access component of the Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec, was designated as the official Quebec platform for tracking and reassigning medical staff (physicians) across the province to meet emerging needs related to COVID-19.

On September 14, 2020, Dr. Anaïs Lacasse, associate professor in the health sciences department at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), presented her gender index in a webinar organized by the Quebec Population Health Research Network (QPHRN).

Former Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec fellow Dr. Marie-Eve Poitras will be leading the PaRIS international survey in Quebec! PaRIS: an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) initiative PaRIS, a survey project based on patient-reported indicators, brings countries together to work on developing, standardizing and implementing a new generation of indicators to measure the […]

Since 2014, the Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec has administered a fellowship program in partnership with the FRQ. This program is targeted at masters and doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, early career researchers and health and social services professionals.