Sage Public Health

Listen to the sponsored podcast featuring Cassandra Gardner, PhD, Associate Director of Medical Affairs at BD-Canada, and Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite, DBA, Associate Vice President of Executive Search Services at The Medfall Group, as they discuss the clinical efficacy of vacuum-assisted biopsies and vacuum-assisted excision technologies in the diagnosis and treatment pathway of breast cancer and how they can help streamline patient care and conserve healthcare resources.

Key messages include how health leaders can maximize diagnostic efficiency by ensuring accurate and timely detection while minimizing unnecessary procedures. Vacuum-assisted technologies require less anaesthesia, fewer supplies, shorter hospital stays, and fewer post-operative visits, making them a viable and sustainable alternative to surgery and improving health outcomes for patients.

Listen to the podcast with Don Juzwishin, PhD, FCCHL, and Dan Breznitz, PhD, as they provide more detail on CIFAR's program on Innovation, Equity and the Future of Prosperity, and talk with author Jane Gingrich, PhD, about her work in the United Kingdom related to innovation strategies and how they shape citizens' public health behaviours. In an era of rising nationalism, public authorities face the temptation to lean into national sentiment to encourage citizens to engage with public health policies - from taking vaccines to promoting healthy lifestyles. Her research suggests that public health authorities should be cautious with nationalist framing, as it may be ineffective or counterproductive. Jane Gingrich, PhD, is a Professor of comparative social policy at the University of Oxford in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention.

Listen to the podcast by Rachelle Ashcroft, PhD, Associate Professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, and cross-appointed to the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, speak about a collaborative process she and her team enhance team-based primary care, drawing on experiences of six disciplines working together to create new curricula as part of Team Primary Care.

They assert that building capacity requires an understanding of unique disciplinary roles and elements of primary care and establishing primary care competencies would provide a common set of skills, knowledge, values and attitudes to form a foundation on which to build the capacity of the interprofessional primary care workforce.

This session is moderated by Catherine Donnelly, PhD, an Associate Professor in Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen's University. Catherine's work is focused on team-based primary care with an emphasis on understanding how interprofessional primary care teams can support older adults and individuals with chronic conditions to live in their neighbourhoods and communities.

Listen to the podcast with Helen Edwards, RN, MN, moderated by Dr. Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite, DBA, CHE, RN, as they talk about how technological advancements, like the Ivenix Infusion System, can be implemented in Canadian hospitals to support the seamless integration between infusion devices, electronic health records, and other hospital information systems, ultimately supporting the broader system of care.

Helen Edwards is a clinical informatics consultant who has led initiatives focused on identifying, evaluating, procuring, as well as implementing and optimizing large-scale informatics and clinical technology solutions. Dr. Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite is a visionary leader, valued member of the HMF Editorial Board, and Associate Vice-President of Executive Search Services for the Medfall Group.