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Project title:
Community Based Health Data Cooperative in an Urban Immigrant Community.
Principal investigator(s):
Chowdhury, Tanvir T; Lasker, Mohammad A
Co-investigator(s):
Aghajafari, Fariba; Ferrer, Ilyan; GOOPY, SUZANNE E; Kassan, Anusha; Lockerbie, Stacy L
Supervisors:
N/A
Institution paid:
University of Calgary
Research institution:
University of Calgary
Department:
Family Medicine
Program:
Planning/Dissemination Grants - IPPH - ICS - Building Healthy Cities - General
Competition (year/month):
201711
Assigned peer review committee:
Planning and Dissemination - Healthy Cities Research Initiative
Primary institute:
Population and Public Health
Primary theme:
Social / Cultural / Environmental / Population Health
Term (yrs/mths):
1 yr 0 mth
CIHR contribution:
Contributors:
Amount:
$10,000
Equipment:
$0
External funding partner(s):
Partner Name:
N/A
Amount:
N/A
Equipment:
N/A
External applicant partner(s):
Partner Name:
N/A
Amount:
N/A
Equipment:
N/A
External in-kind partner(s):
Partner Name:
N/A
Amount:
N/A
Equipment:
N/A
Keywords:
Community Driven Research Priority; Community Empowerment; Immigrant Community; Social Determinants Of Health
Abstract/Summary:
Canada, well known for its friendly immigration and refugee policy, attracts a significant number of immigrants every year from all around the globe. Most of these newcomers settle in the cities across Canada and contributes to the urban human dynamics immensely. Canadian immigrant populations come from diverse ethno-geographical backgrounds and exhibit differences in their cultural and understanding of health and wellness. To achieve the goal of building healthy cities, it is imperative to empower these diverse communities for enabling them to be their own champions for improvement of health and wellness. Enabling the immigrant communities to build their health data cooperatives has the potential to promote health equity by empowering community members. Health data cooperative is an emerging concept that provides a digital platform to gather individual health data in one secure place under the ownership of the data-providers. Health data platforms, if organized as cooperatives, will be solely owned and controlled by their respective members to safely store, manage, and share their health-related data with other stakeholders (e.g. research communities, commercial entities, government bodies), and can be more effective in the active participation of the community members. We propose to explore applied approaches to pilot the development and implementation of a health data cooperative in a local setting among an immigrant community in Calgary.
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