Health Canada: Compilation of research abstracts 2021-2022

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Organization: Health Canada

Date published: August 2023

Introduction

This document encompasses in-house research including contracted social, physical and natural science activities toward generation of new knowledge conducted within Health Canada in 2021-2022. In this context, research is defined as:

"the systematic investigative process of inquiry, including development, testing and analysis, carried out in pursuance of the departmental mandate, in order to discover, interpret or analyse facts, events or behaviours, to develop and revise theories, or to make practical applications with the help of such facts, laws or theories designed to develop or contribute to knowledge."

Such research includes:

  • methods development,
  • adaptation of methods should they be publishable and thereby making a contribution to scientific knowledge,
  • monitoring, surveillance and testing to inform risk assessments and risk management options, or to characterise a situation and establish trends,
  • clinical research,
  • epidemiological studies, and
  • new methods for data analysis, including non-laboratory based methods such as algorithms and data mining.

The importance of research within Health Canada cannot be overstated: the various projects, collaborations, and expertise pursued by the Department demonstrate its commitment to protecting the health and safety of Canadians.

This document should be viewed as a reference tool, a summary of many of the research projects being undertaken in the Department. Developed to support Branch and Departmental programs and in particular research, risk assessment, management, and policy communities, it has the potential to support broader collaboration and partnerships in addition to supporting the exchange and/or uptake of information to assist evidence-based decision making and policy objectives.

Attempts have been made to provide each project summary in non-technical language, and to include a short description of how the research relates to Health Canada's mandate. For ease of reference, the work has been grouped by theme.

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