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Updated October 22, 2004
Leaders' Forum for Health Research in Canada
September 29 - 30, 2004
Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, ON
Strengthening the Foundation of Canada’s Health Research Enterprise
Program
at a Glance (PDF)
Executive Summary
(PDF)
Summary Report by:
Deborah Gordon-El-Bihbety, Chair
Leaders’ Forum Steering Committee
The Forum drew 122 leaders from the health research community who took part
in a two-day exercise that combined both compelling speeches by eminent
speakers who challenged and inspired delegates, and a participatory process
where delegates had an opportunity to engage in discussion and debate on
critical challenges in health research in Canada.
The Forum resulted in a series of key action steps, identified by participants,
and which the Leaders’ Forum Steering Committee is committed to
consolidating into a Draft Strategic Plan that will be sent to all Leaders’
Forum participants within the next six weeks (mid-November). Participants
will be expected to review this plan and provide their comments. Once
the Leaders’ Forum Steering Committee has a plan that Leaders’
Forum participants support, it will be in a position to create a new committee
or coalition that will carry forward the implementation of the recommendations
flowing from the Strategic Plan. The Leaders’ Forum Steering Committee
will officially disband once this new committee or coalition is established.
A Special Task Force of the Leaders’ Forum Steering Committee was
established at the October 1st, 2004 Steering Committee meeting to both
prepare the Draft Strategic Plan and propose a mandate, membership criteria
and overall structure for this new committee or coalition. The Leaders’
Forum Steering Committee will ensure that this committee is in place prior
to its dissolution.
I am confident that this new committee will retain two of the fundamental
components of the Leaders’ Forum Steering Committee that were critical
to bringing to the Forum all of the key stakeholders in health research:
namely, that it will be multi-sectoral in nature and representative of
both federal and provincial/territorial interests.
Following up on the overall Objectives of the Leaders’ Forum, the
Leaders’ Forum Steering Committee is confident that a vision statement
and messages for policy makers, the public and media will emanate naturally
from the process of developing a Strategic Plan and subsequent activities
undertaken by the new committee or coalition that will carry forward the
recommendations emanating from the Strategic Plan.
Please be advised that the Leaders’ Forum Proceedings will be made
available to Leaders’ Forum participants within the next several
weeks.
In partnership, we took a major step forward for health research in
Canada. In partnership, we will continue to chart a course for health
research to save lives and to improve the quality of life in Canada and
abroad.
Deborah Gordon-El-Bihbety, Chair
Leaders’ Forum Steering Committee
By the early years of the new century, policy- and decision-makers in government,
as well as within the health research community, were raising critical policy
questions and challenges about the health research enterprise. In response,
in the fall of 2003, the Council for Health Research in Canada (CHRC) formed
a Leaders’ Forum Steering Committee, a partnership of major federal
and provincial government research agencies, teaching hospitals, regional
health authorities, health research institutes, universities, health charities,
scientific societies, and industry, as well as health professionals and
research advocacy organizations. Members of the Leaders’ Forum Steering
Committee strongly believed it was time to bring health research leaders
together to take stock of our accomplishments and discuss future directions.
In this context, the Leaders’ Forum for Health Research in Canada
seeks to initiate dialogue that will lead to a comprehensive and integrated
vision for health research in Canada. The Forum will also provide an opportunity
to develop a consensus on a range of key messages and strategies consistent
with the evolving vision and that can contribute to policy-making by its
funding agencies, governments, universities, teaching hospitals, regional
health authorities, research institutes, providers, private industry and
the public. Finally, the Forum itself would illustrate to governments and
the public the importance the health research community places on working
collaboratively to resolve the most pressing issues affecting the advancement
of health research across the country.
Forum Objectives
1. Develop a comprehensive and integrated vision for health research
in Canada
2. Identify the key challenges facing the health research community in
the next decade
3. Identify solutions to the most pressing challenges, set priorities
and develop an action plan
4. Develop key messages and strategies for use with government, the public,
and the media
Acknowledgement
CFBS & the following Societies have contributed financially to the
Leaders' Forum:
- Canadian Physiological Society of (CPS)
- Canadian Society for Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology
(CSBMCB)
- Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP)
- Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI)
- Canadian Society of Zoologist (CSZ)
- Pharmacological Society of Canada (PSC)
Dr. Bruce Sells, CFBS Executive Director served on the steering committee
from the planning stages of the Leaders' Forum. Dr. Sells and Dr. Alvin
Shrier, a CFBS past president & several CFBS members through their
position capacity participated in the Leaders's Forum.
A Backgrounder 80 pages PDF document is available on the Leaders' Forum
website:
http://chrc-crsc.ca/english/upload/1069/BackgrounderV7_ENG.pdf
Council for Health Research in Canada
/ Conseil pour la recherche en santè au Canada website.
Forum des Leaders pour la rechere en santé au
Canada
Les 29 et 30 septembre 2004
Fairmont Château Laurier, Ottawa
Renforcer les assises de l’entreprise de la recherche
en santé au Canada
Document de ref Sommaire (PDF)
Au cours des premières années du nouveau siècle,
les responsables des politiques et les décideurs au sein du gouvernement
et de la collectivité de la recherche en santé ont soulevé
des questions critiques au sujet des politiques et des défis qui
se posent à l’entreprise de la recherche en santé.
En réponse, le Conseil pour la recherche en santé au Canada
(CRSC) a constitué, à l’automne de 2003, un Comité
directeur du Forum des leaders, qui est un partenariat des principaux
organismes de recherche du gouvernement fédéral et des provinces,
des hôpitaux d’enseignement, des régies régionales
de la santé, des instituts de recherche en santé, des universités,
des organismes caritatifs dans le domaine de la santé, des sociétés
scientifiques et de l’industrie, de même que des professionnels
de la santé et des organismes voués à la promotion
de la recherche. Les membres du Comité directeur du Forum des leaders
avaient la conviction que le moment était venu de réunir
les leaders du domaine de la recherche en santé pour faire le point
sur nos réalisations et débattre des orientations futures.
Dans ce contexte, le Forum des leaders pour la recherche en santé
au Canada vise à amorcer un dialogue qui mènera à
l’élaboration d’une vision globale et intégrée
de la recherche en santé au Canada. Le Forum fournira aussi une
occasion de forger un consensus sur un ensemble de messages et de stratégies
clés correspondant à la vision émergente et propices
à assurer la contribution de ses organismes de financement, des
gouvernements, des universités, des hôpitaux d’enseignement,
des régies régionales de la santé, des instituts
de recherche, des prestateurs de soins, de l’industrie privée
et du public à l’élaboration des politiques. Enfin,
le Forum lui-même doit servir à démontrer aux gouvernements
et au public l’importance qu’accorde la collectivité
de la recherche en santé au travail en collaboration en vue de
solutionner les problèmes les plus urgents qui pèsent sur
l’avancement de la recherche en santé au pays.
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