Centering Community: Health System Innovation in a Poly-Crisis Age

Community-Based Research Canada presents “Responding to Crises: What is the Value of Community-Based Research?”: our fall 2024- spring 2025 e-learning series. In this E-Learning Series, Community-Based Research Canada showcases Community-Based Research as a tool for responding to current crises facing our society. Community-Based Research engages academic and community partners, including those more directly affected by the crises we face, to conduct action-oriented research leading to innovative solutions co-designed with community. We investigate how Community-Based Research can answer to crises and what value it adds in efforts to innovatively solve issues and advance social development goals. We highlight research projects that exemplify a Community-Based Research approach and have concretely responded to crises in areas such as societal inequities, climate emergency, housing, hunger, poverty, and more.

Sub-Theme: Responding to Health, Wellness, and Social Inequity: From September-December 2024, we will explore the sub-theme of community-based research projects that have responded to current societal…