Patients Redefining the Future of Health Care in Canada

This summit is presented by Save Your Skin Foundation.

Patients Redefining the Future of Health Care in Canada is an annual summit that provides opportunities for patients, caregivers, patient advocates and representatives from diverse disease and disability groups to come together, alongside the broader healthcare ecosystem, to explore and discuss a shared vision for healthcare and better health outcomes in Canada.

The first two two days (November 25 and 26) will be filled with insightful speakers and panels on health and social issues that impact health outcomes. Each day will include breakout sessions to network with colleagues and discuss opportunities for advancing integrated health and social care and to create the needed data infrastructure to address these challenges. 

November 27th is an exclusive action--planning session for patients, caregivers, and their organizations to brainstorm together on actions to move us forward to the next Summit and into the next decade.

French-subtitled recordings will be available post-event. 

# What Makes This Summit Unique:

# Spotlight on Critical Intersections

This year's program will highlight powerful voices where health meets social policy, featuring:

  • Vital First Nations, Inuit, and Métis (FNIM) perspectives building equitable, culturally grounded, and self-determined solutions
  • Urgent discussions on Canada's supportive housing crisis response and its health impacts
  • The growing financial strain of acute/chronic conditions as systemic barriers to care

# Data Revolution

We're advancing action on:

  • Leadership in shaping Canada's connected and equity-informed health data infrastructure
  • Inclusive, community-led governance practices   

# From Discussion to Impact

These conversations will:

  • Examine how socio-economic factors drive health outcomes
  • Present solutions that are culturally grounded in FNIM needs and perspectives
  • Challenge us to leverage opportunities and support the scaling of real-world solutions 

If you are a patient, caregiver, or group representing them, join the action planning session to shape our work together for the coming year. 

We hope you will join us! 

Détails
le Mardi 25 Novembre 2025 - 08:00
le Mercredi 26 Novembre 2025 - 07:00
le Jeudi 27 Novembre 2025 - 08:00
November 25-27, 2025
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Climate data in action: An interactive workshop for public health

This webinar is presented by the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health

Event flyer listing title, date, time, and presenters. Image depicts crews fighting a brush fire.

The climate is changing, and public health impacts are already affecting Canadians. Increasingly, communities are confronting challenges related to extreme heat events, forest fire smoke, vector-borne diseases, and changing precipitation patterns.

Today’s public health professionals are among those at the forefront of climate risk. Future climate data supports public health professionals as they build resilience, whether they are planning for long-term operations or communicating about impacts and risks of climate change.

This interactive workshop guides public health professionals through core climate concepts and provides a step-by-step walkthrough of Canada’s new and improved national climate data hub, ClimateData.ca. Through break-out groups, participants will gain experience accessing, downloading, and applying climate data in a public health context.

Participants will leave the workshop with a stronger ability to:

  • Recognize climate variables that relate to public health
  • Understand how future climate data can be visualized and interpreted using ClimateData.ca
  • Create customized climate data downloads
  • Apply climate data to public health contexts

# Speakers

  • Elaine Barrow, Canadian Centre for Climate Services
  • Ryan Smith, Canadian Centre for Climate Services
Détails
le Mercredi 29 Octobre 2025 - 12:00
12:00-1:30pm
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Free
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Introducing the Ontario Health Menopause Quality Standard and Resources to Support Evidence-Based Care

This webinar is presented by Ontario Health.

This webinar will provide an overview of the Menopause Quality Standard. It will introduce the audience to the quality statements and associated resources, and explore how they can be used to improve care for women and gender-diverse people who are experiencing perimenopause or menopause.  

Détails
le Vendredi 31 Octobre 2025 - 12:00
12-1 pm
Coût : 
Free
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De la prise de conscience à l’action : dépasser les préjudices, viser des soins plus sûrs

Ce webinaire sera présenté par Excellence en Santé Canada.

Nos défis les plus pressants en matière de soins de santé exigent des discussions ciblées et constructives — nous devons faire ouvertement part de nos différentes expériences et perspectives, et écouter celles des autres. C’est expressément dans ce but qu’Excellence en santé Canada a créé la série Pleins feux.

Ce webinaire sera présenté en français, avec un service d’interprétation simultanée en anglais.

Ne manquez pas cette édition spéciale de la série Pleins feux, qui aura pour toile de fond le thème de la Semaine nationale de la sécurité des patients 2025, Des soins plus sûrs, portés par toutes les voix. Ce webinaire mettra en lumière le rôle essentiel des prestataires, des bénéficiaires et des partenaires de soins pour améliorer la sécurité des soins, au-delà des seuls systèmes et politiques.

Les panélistes souligneront qu’en laissant chaque voix s’exprimer, nous pouvons renforcer la sécurité, bâtir la confiance et opérer des changements concrets. Découvrez comment passer de la théorie à la pratique et agir collectivement pour rendre les soins et services de santé plus sûrs pour tout le monde.

Veuillez noter qu’il y aura deux séances de la série Pleins feux à l’occasion de la Semaine nationale de la sécurité des patients. Le webinaire du 28 octobre sera présenté en anglais, avec un service d’interprétation simultanée en français, tandis que celui du 30 octobre sera présenté en français avec un service d’interprétation simultanée en anglais. Les panels seront différents d’un webinaire à l’autre.

# Avec : 

  • Beverley-Tracey John
  • Tanya MacDonald, directrice, Logement et programme communautaire pour personne âgée, Perley Health  
  • Casandra Poitras, fondatrice de Conseils Zèbre Politique et patiente partenaire
  • Isabelle Savard, Directrice régionale Québec, Agrément Canada

# Animé par : 

  • Jérôme Ouellet, directeur Programmes de leadership, Excellence en Santé Canada 
Détails
le Jeudi 30 Octobre 2025 - 12:00
12:00-1:30pm
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From Awareness to Action: Beyond Harm, Toward Safer Care

This webinar is presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada 

Our most pressing challenges in healthcare require focused, constructive discussions. Sharing openly and listening to diverse perspectives and experiences. At Healthcare Excellence Canada, we’ve developed the Spotlight Series to do just that. 

Join us for this special edition Spotlight Series, guided by this year’s Canadian Patient Safety Week theme, All Voices for Safer Care. This webinar will explore how safety is shaped not only by systems and policies but also by the voices of those delivering, receiving and supporting care.

Our panel will explore how we can strengthen safety, build trust and drive meaningful change by making space for all voices. Learn how to move from knowledge to action and how we can, together, make healthcare safer for everyone. 

Please note that we’re hosting two Spotlight Series webinars for Canadian Patient Safety Week. The October 28 webinar will be English-first with French simultaneous interpretation, and the October 30 webinar will be French-first with English simultaneous interpretation. The speakers for each webinar will be different.

# Speakers:

  • Dr. Nancy Humber
  • Lorraine Thomas, Manager, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity Accessibility and Anti-Racism (IDEAA), Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
  • Christie Ruff, Executive Director Culture & Wellbeing, Horizon Health Network
  • Harjeet Kaur, Patient Partner and Advocate

# Host:

  • Andrea Piché, Senior Program Lead, Healthcare Excellence Canada
Détails
le Mardi 28 Octobre 2025 - 12:00
12:00-1:30pm
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Webinar

Q&A for IPCT Expansion EOI: Applying the Neighbourhood Health Home Model

This webinar is presented by the Alliance for Healthier Communities

In early October, we hosted a webinar about how primary care teams, providers, OHTs, and PCNs can prepare their IPCT Expansion Expressions of Interests (EOIs) to incorporate the Neighbourhood Health Home model of Primary Health Care. The Neighbourhood Health Home enables regions to attach people to primary health care while addressing health inequities and improving primary care provider experiences. The model offers a path toward connected, equitable, and integrated care for people and communities.

We are excited to invite our speakers back for an extended Q&A session. Speakers will address questions from the previous webinar and attendees can ask further questions about 1) how to align their upcoming EOI submissions with the Neighbourhood Health Home model and 2) how one team is actively implementing the model with their community.

#  Who should attend:

  • Primary Care Network Leads/Members
  • OHT Leads
  • FHO, FHG, FHN Primary Care Physicians
  • IPCTs – FHTs, cFHTs, NPLCs, CHCs, IPHCOs
  • Anyone supporting IPCT expansion

#  Additional Resources:

Détails
le Mardi 21 Octobre 2025 - 08:00
8:00 - 9:00 am
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Catalyst Seminar Series: Fall 2025

This online seminar series is presented by the Institute of Health Emergencies and Pandemics (IHEP) at the University of Toronto

# Sessions

# Session 1: Long COVID | October 17 | Learn more and register here 

  • Understanding the impacts of structural racism on (im)migration and racialized population living with Long-COVID in Peel Region: A community-centred approach
    • Presenters: Kathi Wilson/Andrea Rishworth (University of Toronto Mississauga)
  • Investigating Post-COVID-19 Condition in Ontarians and Marginalized Communities
    • Presenter: Joseph Munn (Sunnybrook Research Institute)

# Session 2: Impacts on Individuals with Disabilities | November 11 | Learn more and register here

  • Addressing Health Inequities for Black and Racialized Immigrants with Disabilities During and Beyond COVID-19 in Ontario
    • Presenter: Chavon Niles (Temerty Faculty of Medicine)
  • Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Clinical Outcomes of Patients with a Disability Hospitalized on a Medical Service
    • Presenter: Hilary Brown (University of Toronto Scarborough)

# Session 3:  Artificial Intelligence and Data | December 9 | Learn more and register here

  • Transforming Patient and Provider Experiences into Actionable Insights for Pandemic Readiness, Resilience, and Recovery with an AI-Enabled Hospital System
    • Presenter: Zahra Shakeri (Dalla Lana School of Public Health)
  • Predicting Outbreaks in Shelters: Development and data-driven testing of a computational model of airborne SARS-CoV-2 spread
    • Presenter: Swetaprovo Chaudhuri (Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering)

# Session 4: Supporting Vulnerable Populations | January 13 | Learn more and register here

  • Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Communities Made Vulnerable by Social and Economic Conditions and the Subsequent Policy Response in Canada
  • Leveraging Data Science to Improve Vaccine Equity and Pandemic Preparedness Among Children Who are Newcomers to Canada

# Session 5: Women and Children | February 10 | Learn more and register here

  • Evaluating Equity-focused Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood and Youth Mental Health in Canada
    • Presenter: Kuan Liu (Dalla Lana School of Public Health)
  • Shedding Light on the “Shadow Pandemic”: Developing a research agenda on gender-based violence during and after COVID-19
    • Presenter: Beverley Essue (Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation)
    • Co-leads: Beverley Essue (Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation) and Sarah Kaplan (Rotman School of Management)

# Session 6: Social networks and misinformation | March 11 | Learn more and register here

  • Empowering Recovery: Enhancing health literacy and social networks for black gay, bisexual, MSM (BGBM) in Ontario
  • Improving resilience to misinformation to facilitate effective communication with the public
    • Presenter: Li Shu (Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering)

# About the Catalyst Seminar Series

Launching this October, this series will showcase groundbreaking research on pandemic and public health emergency readiness, resilience, and recovery. Join us online as experts from the Institute of Health Emergencies and Pandemics explore a variety of critical topics, including Long Covid, the impacts on individuals with disabilities, and the role of artificial intelligence in healthcare. The series will also highlight vital issues like the mental health crisis among children and youth post-pandemic, gender-based violence during and after COVID-19, and the influence of social networks and misinformation on public health.   

Détails
le Vendredi 17 Octobre 2025 - 12:00
le Mardi 11 Novembre 2025 - 12:00
le Mardi 9 Décembre 2025 - 12:00
le Mardi 13 Janvier 2026 - 12:00
le Mardi 10 Février 2026 - 12:00
le Mercredi 11 Mars 2026 - 12:00
October 17, November 11, December 9 | 12-1 pm
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Communicate and engage with patients, caregivers and communities

This webinar is presented by CASCADES Canada.

Community collaboration and integration are crucial for building resilient health systems, especially in the context of climate-related challenges. Engaging patients, caregivers, and communities in the design and delivery of healthcare services improves quality of care and can advance a more sustainable system.

By leveraging local knowledge, health systems can design preparedness strategies that are context-specific and address the real needs of the community. Meaningful partnership is essential to reducing environmental impact and ensuring that patient and community voices are central in shaping the care they receive

Détails
le Jeudi 23 Octobre 2025 - 12:00
12-1 pm
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Free
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Webinar

Small Steps, Big Impact: How Primary Care Can Drive Hepatitis C Elimination in Ontario

This webinar is presented by the Alliance and the Hepatitis C Elimination Roadmap Ontario

Hepatitis C is the first curable chronic viral infection, yet many people remain undiagnosed or disconnected from care. This webinar, delivered by the Hepatitis C Elimination Roadmap Ontario, explores how integrating hepatitis C testing and treatment into everyday primary care can strengthen patient attachment, reduce health inequities, and drive hepatitis C elimination at the micro level. During this session, participants will learn how:

  • Hepatitis C care advances health equity in priority populations.
  • Screening can connect patients to providers and strengthen primary care relationships.
  • Liver health is an important part of primary care and the health impacts associated with hepatitis C cure.
  • Advances in hepatitis C testing, as well as clinical tools and practice resources can support providers from testing to cure.

# Presenters

  • Bernadette Lettner, RN, Lead, Hepatitis C Elimination: Clinical Training, Guidance and Monitoring
  • Kate Palbom, Lead, Hepatitis C Elimination: Engagement and Secretariat 
Détails
le Mercredi 26 Novembre 2025 - 12:00
12-1 pm
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Free
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FASD & Dental Issues

This webinar is presented by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Ontario

Did you know that dental issues are very common among people with FASD? This can include higher rates of tooth decay, gum inflammation, differences in how anesthetic / freezing work, high or low pain thresholds, and sensory issues that can interfere with good oral hygiene. People with FASD often benefit from accommodations and specialized care during dental treatment. On October 15, 2025 from 1:00 to 2:15 p.m. ET we are hosting a live webinar on FASD and Dental Issues featuring Dr. Keith Da Silva, pediatric dentist and researcher in dental public health.

Détails
le Mercredi 15 Octobre 2025 - 13:00
1:00 - 2:15 pm
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Free
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Webinar