Bruyère Health Research Institute and University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics Announce Strategic New Partnership
11/18/2024
University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics and the Bruyère Health Research Institute have established a multi-year strategic partnership to promote the advancement of health, technology, and human learning through collaboration focused on their shared areas of research.
The initiative builds off prior collaborations between the institutions, including a public lecture series that brought legal and health care experts together to discuss some of the most pressing challenges faced by the health care system and the innovative solutions that could have meaningful impact for Canadians.
“Collaborations like this are vital for addressing the complex issues at the intersection of health, technology, and law,” said Vanessa Gruben, Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. “By combining our expertise in health law, policy and ethics with Bruyère Health’s clinical and research strengths, we’re uniquely positioned to develop solutions that promote equitable access to care and enhance the quality of healthcare.
As health technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) continue to evolve across the sector, the legal, ethical, and policy implications will continue to evolve with them. This collaboration looks to embrace opportunities to bring scholars together to address critical challenges with a multi-disciplinary lens.
“Our scientists are imagining the future of aging and resilience and tackling some of the health systems greatest challenges,” said Dr. Kumanan Wilson, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of the Bruyère Health Research Institute and Vice-President, Research and Academic Affairs at Bruyère Health. “Technology and the law will be critical to addressing many of these challenges. Bruyère Health welcomes the expertise at the Centre to collaboratively help solve pressing health problems.”
The formalized partnership kicked off November 7th at the event, Advancing Women’s Health with AI: Insights and Innovations, in partnership with AMS Healthcare to discuss the transformative impact of AI on women’s health and the innovative applications and strategies that promise to enhance health care outcomes for women.
About University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics
The Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics brings together 30 core faculty drawn from a dozen disciplines and aims to bridge gaps and foster the collaboration of different kinds of researchers and practitioners to address complex challenges in health law, policy and ethics. The Centre also seeks to move new ideas and evidence from research into the hands of policy makers, practitioners and the public.
About Bruyère Health Research Institute
Bruyère Health Research Institute conducts world-class research to maximize quality of life and shape the future of health care. As part of an academic health sciences centre, our research supports evidence-based care with a focus on memory, aging-in-place and long-term care, palliative care, rehabilitation and recovery, and social accountability.