HBCRG Seminar Series: The World Needs More Canada

Drs Molly Byrne, Jenny Mc Sharry and Elaine Toomey of the Health Behaviour Change Rsearch Group (HBCRG) spent time in Canada during summer 2017, and will discuss their experiences at an upcoming HBCRG seminar on 11 October.

Molly received the James M. Flaherty visiting professorship award for a 10-week research visit, during which time she visited three Canadian centres: the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the Behaviour Change Institute, Capital Health Nova Scotia. At the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, she worked with Drs Simon Bacon and Kim Lavoie of the International Behavioural Trials Network. At the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the Behaviour Change Institute in Nova Scotia, she collaborated to build international research in the emerging areas of Implementation Science and health promotion interventions for young adults with Type 1 diabetes.

Both Jenny and Elaine presented at the Global Implementation Conference in Toronto, while Elaine completed a 6-week research placement at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and also presented at Knowledge Translation Canada in Quebec.