Tag: Data

Participant Town Hall – Nov 17th

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There are only three more days before the upcoming Atlantic PATH and CanPath Participant Town Hall! There is still time to register! On Monday, November 17th, you can learn about how we are “Preventing Cancer, Together: How your Data is Driving Discoveries.” Join us at the Town Hall to learn how the data and biological samples provided by our participants are used to study cancer and chronic disease and support exciting scientific discoveries. When: Monday, November 17, 2025 1-230pm Atlantic Time Where: Online Zoom Meeting Watch your email inbox for an invitation and additional details! If you have changed your contact information, please reach out: https://www.atlanticpath.ca/index.php/contact-us/ You can also register here (http://bit.ly/4nRdVHh) and submit your questions to be answered during our panel discussion. Please note, the webinar will be recorded and shared afterwards on YouTube.

PEI’s Secure Island Data Repository Launch

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Congratulations to our colleagues in Prince Edward Island on the launch of the Secure Island Data Repository (SIDR)! “Operated by the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) Centre for Health and Community Research (CHCR), SIDR is a PEI-based data centre that securely houses de-identified administrative health data for research purposes. SIDR is joins a network of similar organizations across Canada through Health Data Research Network Canada (HDRN Canada), that supports world-leading multi-regional data use that drives improvements in health and health equity. This data enables transformative research that supports well informed, empowered, and healthy communities in PEI, and across Canada. SIDR provides researchers and knowledge users with a spectrum of services from research consultation and support to data access and analytics.” For more information: www.sidrpei.caSource: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chcr-sidr/posts/

DataNB Celebrates 10 Years of Research and Impact

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Our colleagues at DataNB are celebrating 10 years of Research and Impact. Their anniversary event will bring you together with researchers to highlight how our data and research have informed policies that touch the everyday lives of New Brunswickers — from health to education, population dynamics, and more. Date: Dec. 1, 2025, 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Richard J. Currie Center Long Hall Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/celebrating-10-years-of-research-impact-tickets-1765466912059?aff=oddtdtcreator

CanPath Access Office Hours

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Join us for the CanPath Access Office Hours to learn more about how you can leverage CanPath data for your research. Members of the Access Office will be available to answer your questions, including Atlantic PATH Executive Director, Jason Hicks and our CanPath colleagues, Nouar Elkhair and Sheraz Cheema. The “Access Office Hours” virtual series provides researchers with an opportunity every quarter to ask questions they may have about CanPath data and biosamples, the access process or the CanPath Portal.

Canadian Cancer Society – Data Saves Lives

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“Data save lives. It’s as simple as that.” ? Thank you to the Canadian Cancer Society for having CanPath at the Cancer Data Community of Practice Workshop in Toronto this March. We were honoured to join this important conversation about improving Canada’s cancer data ecosystem because better data means better outcomes for all Canadians. Dr. Robin Urquhart, Atlantic PATH Scientific Director, says, “Data save lives. It’s as simple as that … How are we going to improve if we don’t know how we’re doing or if we don’t know where we have to improve, right? And data allows us to do that.” Dr. Donna Turner, Manitoba Tomorrow Project Scientific Director, says, “We really can’t manage what we don’t measure … We know that cancer data are actually relatively strong compared to other diseases, but we have so far to go.” A video from the Canadian Cancer Society of seven cancer stakeholders is available on LinkedIn.    

Administrative Health Data Services in the Maritimes Webinar

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Join the Maritime SPOR Support Unit to learn about accessing data administrative health data with Health Data Nova Scotia and the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training, including linked data sources from Atlantic PATH and the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging! Thursday, Oct 17th, 12-1pm AST Registration: https://t.co/r8r6KevJht

Health Data Nova Scotia & Atlantic PATH – Linked Data

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We were happy to attend the Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit Lunch and Learn webinar today! Health Data Nova Scotia presented about their data holdings including new datasets from Atlantic PATH and Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging / Étude longitudinale canadienne sur le vieillissement in 2024. It also covered the role of Health Data Research Network Canada for studies with more than one province. Reach out to Health Data Nova Scotia and Atlantic PATH for more information on data holdings and the research access process! #HealthResearch

Pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy

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The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) and Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) have launched the Pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy that will guide efforts to enhance the collection, integration and use of cancer data. “CPAC and CCS have worked with various partners, including provincial and territorial cancer agencies and programs, healthcare organizations, First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners, researchers, policymakers and people with lived cancer experience to create a cancer-specific data strategy that includes: a framework to guide the mission, vision, values and success factors for improvements in cancer data three priorities for action and investment including: improving the efficiency, timeliness and quality of data capture and access enhancing linkages to current data filling gaps in current data collection and availability a section on the importance of First Nations, Inuit and Métis data sovereignty, with examples of First Nations, Inuit and Métis-led efforts to improve data and data governance.” CanPath, and its seven regional cohorts including Atlantic PATH, are proud to be represented in the new Pan-Canadian Cancer Data Strategy.  We’re committed to filling gaps in data on risk factors to guide cancer prevention efforts.  CPAC Press Release: https://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/about-us/corporate-resources-publications/pan-canadian-cancer-data-strategy/

CBC News Article

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A Dalhousie University and McMaster University led project is highlighted in a recent CBC article. The New Frontiers in Research Fund supported research is focused on disparities in cancer incidence and outcomes in a Black Nova Scotian community (Shelburne, Nova Scotia). This research is truly interdisciplinary, incorporating natural and social sciences to consider the role of environmental, biological, genetic, socioeconomic, and lifestyle factors with the high cancer incidence and mortality in this community. Atlantic PATH will act as a comparison population using data and biological samples from Nova Scotia participants. Additional details about this project and the new Nova Scotia Environmental Racism Panel in the CBC Article by Josefa Cameron (July 2, 2023): https://bit.ly/44dw9cu