Matters of Engagement
Matters of Engagement examines issues at the intersection of health, health care and society. Including: how people in Canada access and experience health care service delivery and distribution; how those experiences impact both individual and community health; and the multitude of environmental, systemic, and political factors that favour some and disadvantage many. Jennifer Johannesen and Emily Nicholas Angl produce each episode with the aim of illuminating difficult or confounding issues, to provoke much-needed critical dialogue among all stakeholders.
Episodes
Meet the peer health coaches - the volunteers at the heart of the BETTER Women project. Through candid conversations, we hear from women who underwent extensive training in motivational interviewing and health coaching to support others on their wellness journeys. From international physicians to cancer survivors to newcomers seeking community connection, these coaches share what drew them to the program, how the training changed t...
How do you design a study to test whether peer support actually works? In this episode, we dive into the nuts and bolts of the BETTER Women research project - a randomized controlled trial examining whether trained volunteer peer health coaches can help people stick with their health goals long-term. We explore the three study sites, learn about recruiting and training participants across different communities, and discover the com...
We know our Canadian healthcare system is overloaded, and that preventative care may help address the increasing pressures on chronic and emergency care services. But how best to support people to actually do what they need to do to improve or manage their own health? In this series opener, we explore "upstream" healthcare through the BETTER Women research project - a collaboration between Women's College Hospital and the Canadian...
Discover how peer support could revolutionize Canadian healthcare in this groundbreaking 5-part series from Matters of Engagement, in collaboration with the Canadian Cancer Society and the BETTER Women research team at Women's College Hospital.
Follow the BETTER Women research project, where trained volunteers become peer health coaches, supporting wo...
This REPLAY! episode first aired December, 2021. New introduction by Emily Nicholas Angl, followed by a full replay of the episode. Also, we've added some publications to the show notes (scroll down) related to this episode.
Discussing Failures in Participatory Research, with Lori Ross
We initially invited Lori Ross on the podcast to discuss the PEERS (Peers Examining Experiences in Research) Study – a 2 yr federally funded resea...
This REPLAY! episode first aired November, 2022. New introduction by Jennifer Johannesen, followed by a full replay of the episode.
Vagueness of language, unarticulated assumptions, and maintaining the status quo. With Amy Katz and Melody Morton Ninomiya
This is a conversation we’ve been sitting with for many weeks, thinking hard about how to present it. We spoke to our guests with th...
After more than a year of no new episodes, we're rebooting Matters of Engagement—literally from the cottage dock! Between cicada serenades and turtle sightings, we're announcing exciting new directions.
Get ready for three fresh content streams: Research Collaborations supporting knowledge translation for health and healthcare research projects (with three already in the works!), our Replay Series where we'll revisit standout epis...
We're doing something a little bit different! We're taking a shot at making video along with the podcast! You can watch this episode on our YouTube channel, or as always, you can listen in your favorite podcast app.
This episode has two parts. We're first going to feature a short talk Jennifer gave at the Canadian Caregiving Summit in Ottawa a few weeks ago, which was specifically focused on her experiences as an extreme caregiver,...
What exactly is the best way to engage patients in a healthcare research project? Well, it's hard to say definitively. Funders like CIHR often require patient involvement, but very little direction is provided beyond general frameworks and guiding principles. Often project teams just have to sort things out on their own. So we were curious to find out how this one particular healthcare research project handled it.
The details of t...
It's been a while since we've published an episode! We have lots on the go these days. Come hang out with Jen and Em as we wrap up the Health Policy series and share what's next.
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A widely-held assumption is that all residents of Long-term Care (LTC) homes are frail, elderly and in need of sweeping protections as determined by government, policy-makers and LTC home management. The reality, however, is that residents of LTC homes comprise a diverse demographic and have a wide range of needs, interests and concerns. And across the spectrum of needs, residents have a strong desire to participate in key decision...
We're bringing conference vibes to the podcast and presenting a short series of critical work on public engagement from members of the Public Engagement in Health Policy team. We noted themes of: community exclusion from formal engagement processes; misalignment of goals; questions of legitimacy; and challenges of conducting community-engaged research in institutional settings.
On September 22, 2022, the Public Engagement in Health Policy project team at McMaster University hosted a one-day conference, Reimagining public engagement in a changing world. Community members, engagement practitioners, researchers, and policymakers gathered virtually and in person to discuss the opportunities and pitfalls of public engagement and to envision a way forward. Attendees explored questions such as, what does it mean...
What makes an engagement process legitimate? How do technical experts feel about engagement, and how have their ideas of legitimacy changed over time? These are just some of the questions we explore with our guest, Katherine (Katie) Boothe, Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at McMaster University.
A recent paper of Katie's (Redefining Legitimacy in Canadian Drug Assessment Policy? Comparing Ideas Over Time) ...
Deliberation, Democracy and Public Engagement: A Conversation with Kim McGrail (Health Policy Series
Kim McGrail is the Scientific Director of Health Data Research Network, a CIHR funded initiative whose work in the health data space has implications for, well, everyone living in Canada. And they're keen to involve the public not just in getting input, but in providing guidance into key decisions. HDRN's work is both technical and somewhat conceptual: their aim is to support researchers to better access health data for research f...
In previous episodes we've talked a lot about high-level rationales for engagement, like democratic principles and moral or ethical obligations. But we haven't really got into some of the operational nuts and bolts, like the fact that there's a whole fee-for-service industry out there - agencies hired by healthcare organizations to support engagement strategy and activities.
Join us for this behind-the-scenes look at what engagemen...
In this episode, we continue our conversation with Alpha Abebe and Rhonda C. George! (Haven't heard the first conversation yet? Listen here!) This time, we talk about Black communities' response to COVID, and public health response to Black communities.
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During a public health crisis is the exact wrong time to try and build relationships and trust with communities who have not historically been included in health ...
In this episode, we continue our Health Policy series with guests Alpha Abebe and Rhonda C. George.
Alpha and Rhonda's research foregrounds Black community experiences and insights related to health policy engagement. We're featuring their work over two back-to-back episodes. This episode focuses on the engagement work of Black communities. Our guests want to "flip the script," shifting away from a deficit model of understanding Bl...
We're back! We're excited to get rolling on this new series on Health Policy! We have a range of questions we want to explore, including: who is involved in making policy, and how are public needs identified? How is public engagement defined? And who is included or excluded?
We're kicking off the series with a conversation with Julia Abelson. Julia is a professor at McMaster University in the Department of Health Evidence and Impa...
Just a quick check in to say hello and share what's next!
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