How can knowledge exchange in primary health care research benefit people with diabetes? A qualitative study was presented by our post-doctoral fellow Francesca Brundisini at a webinar hosted by Diabetes Action Canada on September 15. Research findings on diabetes treatment often lead to different approaches to managing the disease. How is this information communicated to […]

On September 15, 2020, our scientific director Alain Vanasse took part in a webinar organized by the Association pour la santé publique du Québec to discuss the implications of a lack of access to information for public health with Thomas Bastien, Richard Lessard, Philippe Després, Roxane Borgès Da Silva and Sylvain Bédard. The Unité de soutien SSA du Québec is one […]

Dr. Alain Vanasse is a recipient of the Innovation Québec – Janssen Partnership. Dr. Vanasse is the scientific director at the Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec, a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke’s family medicine and emergency medicine department, and the director of the CHUS de l’Estrie’s PRIMUS research group. Dr. Vanasse’s proposed project […]

Dr. France Légaré, Director of the Research on health and social systems, knowledge application and implementation component of the Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec, has contributed to the study “Achieving Person-Centred Health Systems: Evidence, Strategies and Challenges” published by the Observatoire européen des systèmes et des politiques de santé on July 16. Dr. Légaré […]

The Capacity Development component of the Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec is pleased to welcome its new cohort of fellows. For the first time, our fellowship program, offered in partnership with the three Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ), will include research fellows in addition to our master’s and doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.Activities […]

Here is our summer 2020 training and webinar program. Whether you are a student, researcher, patient or patient partner, clinician or manager in the health care and social services network, you will find training that will meet your needs regarding patient-oriented research. This training is part of the Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec’s mandate to […]

Research for COVID The Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec is connected with the Quebec COVID – Pandemic Network (QCPN), an initiative of the Fonds de recherche du Québec en santé, and is ready to collaborate. The main objective of the QCPN is to create an environment of close collaboration to coordinate research efforts, prioritize actions and […]

The Unité de soutien SRAP du Québec is happy to announce the appointment of Dr. Antoine Groulx, clinical professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Université Laval and a family doctor in the University Family Medicine Group (U-FMG) in Maizerets, as designated scientific director. The Nomination Committee unanimously approved Dr. Antoine Groulx. His […]

A new name and a new website! Unité de Soutien SRAP du Québec has become the Unité de soutien SSA Québec, placing the learning health system (LHS) at the centre of its mandate.

Under the leadership of Dr. Hervé Zomahoun and Dr. France Légaré, our team was able to rally family physicians, pneumologists, nurses, respiratory therapists, researchers, public servants, members of the public, decision-makers and other key people around a consensus, which led to the drafting of guidelines to be used in the creation of a decision aid to help people who are eligible for lung cancer screening make an informed choice about whether or not to undergo screening.