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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! 

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.  

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

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
  • Presenter: Andrew Pinto (St. Michael’s Hospital)
• Leveraging Data Science to Improve Vaccine Equity and Pandemic Preparedness Among Children Who are Newcomers to Canada
  • Presenter: Shaun Morris (The Hospital for Sick Children)

# 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
  • Presenter: Lance T. McCready (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)
• 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.