Health equity is important to the CanScreen T1D consortium’s research, as we believe that everyone deserves access to quality healthcare. When people experience barriers to accessing healthcare, particularly for unfair or unjust reasons, this can lead to health disparities.
For this reason, we are working on how we can minimize health disparities to ensure our pilot screening program is as accessible and culturally safe as possible.
The CanScreen T1D research consortium aims to achieve its health equity goals by focusing its efforts on the following areas:
- Health Disparities: Consider the needs of and reduce barriers that diverse communities experience in accessing screening and treatment.
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI): Advocates for inclusive research practices and policies that promote equity and diversity within CanScreen T1D and in its broader impacts.
- Sex and Gender Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+): Consider how sex, gender, age, ethnocultural identity, rurality, education, disability, income, sexual orientation, language, health status, and how different parts of a person’s identity combine to affect their experience with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) screening, risk, diagnosis, and follow-up care.
- Inclusive Engagement: Build trusting and ongoing relationships with diverse communities to ensure that a broad range of perspectives are incorporated into our research.
Join Us in Driving EDI in T1D Research!
Do you have a passion for EDI? Your lived or professional experience could help guide CanScreen T1D’s efforts to reduce health disparities and integrate EDI and SGBA+ into our research activities.
CanScreen T1D is seeking community partners to serve on its Health Disparities and EDI/SGBA+ Committee.
Express Your Interest!
Interested in joining the committee? We invite you to complete our Expression of Interest form and a member of our team will contact you soon.
In this role, you will advise project teams and work to identify and reduce barriers that diverse populations face in receiving effective screening and treatment. You will advocate for inclusive research practices and policies that promote EDI within CanScreen T1D and in its broader impacts.
As a committee member, you’ll help shape equitable and inclusive research practices, ensuring diverse communities are represented in T1D research. Your insights will guide project teams in embedding EDI and SGBA+ principles for meaningful, impactful health outcomes.
This role also offers the chance to expand your network, collaborate with like-minded individuals, and gain valuable research experience while driving positive change in health equity.
We welcome expressions of interest from individuals with the following backgrounds or experiences:
- People who identify as belonging to an equity-deserving group(s) (e.g., individuals from racialized and LGBTQIA2S+ communities, people with disabilities, people living in rural or remote regions, and people from diverse ethnocultural and linguistic groups, etc.).
- People with lived experience of T1D, another health condition or navigating the health care system.
- People with professional experience advancing EDI and SGBA+ practices in health care, community organizations, health policy or research.
This opportunity requires a commitment of approximately 10 hours per year for two years. You’ll participate in 3 to 4 one-hour meetings each year, with additional time for reviewing materials or providing input as needed.
Members will be compensated according to our compensation policy.
Since the Health Disparities and EDI/SGBA+ Committee will include people across Canada, access to a smart phone, computer and internet will be needed to participate in virtual meetings (such as on Zoom or Microsoft Teams).
If you have accessibility needs or require an accommodation, please let us know using the expression of interest form linked above.