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The latest from the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training
Ignite Student Spotlight: Meet the Students Conducting an Economic Analysis of the Fredericton Capital Region
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: November 13, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Pathways to Professions , Partners , Student Spotlights , Population Research , Media , Economics , Training
Economic development is a key focus for researchers in New Brunswick, and this led NB-IRDT to partner with Ignite in 2023 to provide our Pathways to Professions (P2P) students with a key new experiential learning opportunity. For 13 weeks this summer, the 2023 Ignite student team worked under the mentorship of Andrew Lockhart (Director of Economic & Entrepreneurial Growth at Ignite) to develop an economic analysis of the Fredericton Capital Region. Since its regionalization in early 2023, the...
NB-IRDT and Under One Sky to Research Impact of Aboriginal Head Start Program in Urban and Northern Communities
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: September 27, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
One of over 100 non-profit Friendship Centres in Canada, Under One Sky Friendship Centre supports Indigenous children aged 2-5 years (and their families) in the Fredericton area. Through their Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) program, the children complete activities that encourage social, emotional, physical and spiritual growth to better prepare them to enter public school systems, and for the broader benefit of their siblings and families. Under One...
World Alzheimer’s Day: Learn About the Healthy Seniors Pilot Projects that are Researching Dementia in New Brunswick and Beyond
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: September 20, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
September 21st is World Alzheimer's Day. It is dedicated to raising awareness and breaking the stigma surrounding Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, as well as educating people about the condition and encouraging support for families and individuals living with dementia. To commemorate this day, we highlight a few of our Healthy Seniors Pilot Projects that focus on Alzheimer’s and dementia. These projects are instrumental in understanding and addressing the...
Canadian Pharmacists Journal Publishes NB-IRDT Research on Pharmacist-Administered Vaccines
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: August 8, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Team News , Health , Media , Partners
An NB-IRDT research study recently published in the Canadian Pharmacists Journal projects the health and economic outcomes of using public funding to cover the cost of pharmacists administering pneumonia vaccines (Pneu23) and tetanus boosters (Td/Tdap) to New Brunswick adults (19 years and up). While NB pharmacists are able to provide a wide range of immunizations, many of these are not covered by public funding. NB Medicare, for instance, only covers the costs of pharmacists administering...
Call for First-Time Families to Inform NB-IRDT’s Expanding Research on Healthy Families, Healthy Babies
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: July 31, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Are you a first-time parent whose baby was born in New Brunswick within the last 18 months? If so, our researchers want to learn from your experiences! We are looking for 2-4 New Brunswick parents to join us for 2 virtual meetings (1 hour each, with compensation provided), during which you will have the opportunity to share your valuable insights and lived experience to help our research inform the delivery of support services for young families in the...
NB-IRDT Completes Evaluation of Cost-Effectiveness of Breath-Based Lung Cancer Screenings
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: September 15, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Lung cancer is a dangerous, costly disease to treat. In Canada alone, nearly 30,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer each year, and around 21,000 people die from the disease annually. The cost of treating lung cancer in Canada reaches approximately $2 billion a year, with each case costing around $70,000. Needless to say, this disease is taking a heavy toll on the Canadians who are diagnosed, their families and caregivers, and the health system itself. Of course, many...
CCA Appoints Expert Panel on Health Data Sharing in Canada
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: June 30, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Datasets , Media , Population Research , Evidence-based Policy , Partners
“Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.” - Peter Senge The sharing of health data has positively impacted the Canadian health care system and saved countless lives. Recently, responding to a request from the Public Health Agency of...
Introducing ExperienceGNB: A Policy Bootcamp for High School Students
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: December 8, 2021 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Partners , Media , Training , Youth
Calling all high school students in the Fredericton area! The Government of New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training have partnered to host a one-week policy bootcamp for high school students, taking place this March Break. This experiential learning opportunity, called ExperienceGNB, offers students a chance to use research to solve relevant problems facing them and their peers, and to see how government works in their province. From March 7-11, 2022,...
Opportunity for Citizen Partners to Join NB-IRDT’s Data and Research Committee
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: September 8, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
The New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT) is committed to research that benefits New Brunswickers. To accomplish this, we are always looking for ways to incorporate NB citizens in our research process. At the moment, we are seeking two NB residents to join our Data and Research Committee (DRC) Working Group as Citizen Partners. What is the NB-IRDT Data and Research Committee? NB-IRDT is a research and data institute that collects and uses data to carry out...
Apply here for a summer job
Mara Mallory
Posted: February 12, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Team News , Media , Partners
The New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training at UNB has joined forces with the Atlantic Institute for Policy Research and FutureReadyNB to host the very first Pathways to Professions. Pathways to Professions is a 13-week (May 18 - Aug. 14, 2020) paid summer program for undergraduate students at UNB interested in research, communi- cations, and more. Successful applicants will work on research projects for not-for-profit and municipal employers while being paid wages supported...
Data Access Support Hub launched
Mara Mallory
Posted: February 1, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Datasets , Partners , Population Research
The Health Data Research Network (HDRN) has launched the Data Access Support Hub (DASH), a one-stop shop for requesting access to data from multiple provincial, territorial and pan-Canadian sources. This initiative is made possible through the through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR), which is a collection of funding partnerships between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), provinces and territories, philanthropic organizations, academic institutions, and...