Lung Health Network for Healthcare Professionals and Researchers
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Your expertise matters.
Your experience matters. Your voice matters. |
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Powered by the Lung Health Foundation, this network offers meaningful opportunity for healthcare professionals and researchers to collaborate and directly contribute to the design, delivery, and evaluation of strategies and policies to improve lung health in Canada. We are guided by the strategic plan of the Lung Health Foundation and are engaged throughout its work to ensure diverse perspectives and insight contribute to impact and sustainable change.
Network Opportunities
Overall
Members stay engaged in the work at the Lung Health Foundation and are kept up to date on progress and opportunities to engage in more formal ways. Tailored to each members interests, the monthly e-newsletter is the primary method of engagement along with invitations to engage in activities like focus groups, interviews, application for clinical lead positions, needs assessment surveys and to join working groups within the below listed Network Hubs etc. There are also opportunities for members to promote their own work across the Network.
Members stay engaged in the work at the Lung Health Foundation and are kept up to date on progress and opportunities to engage in more formal ways. Tailored to each members interests, the monthly e-newsletter is the primary method of engagement along with invitations to engage in activities like focus groups, interviews, application for clinical lead positions, needs assessment surveys and to join working groups within the below listed Network Hubs etc. There are also opportunities for members to promote their own work across the Network.
When you join the Network you will be asked to identify your areas of interest including:
Provider Education Hub
The Lung Health Foundation's approach to education is focused on activating best practices, sharing lessons, spotlighting what's working and what's not so we can collectively improve implementation efforts for greater impact. Healthcare professionals interested in supporting this focus in our education efforts at the Lung Health Foundation are encouraged to join the education hub to help us shape the provider education and capacity building program, its offerings, and approaches to effective measurement and evaluation of educational interventions. It will be through the education hub that providers can self-identify their interest in participating in developing our educational programming (e.g. clinical lead position, speaker/faculty, planning committees like Better Breathing).
What's next for the Provider Education Hub?
What's next for the Provider Education Hub?
- Expanding the Better Breathing Scientific Planning Committee membership for 2023
- Call for interest will be issued May 2022
- 3 meetings (2hrs each) over 10 months
- Support communication with speakers, including moderating sessions during the conference
Health Policy Hub
Provide valuable input into the policy efforts at the Lung Health Foundation. We will be recruiting a working group from the hub to further inform on how to improve engagement with healthcare providers in policy.
Implementation Hub
Support the design, execution and evaluation of the Foundation’s implementation efforts. There will be an initial working group launched at the outset of the Network (April 2022). However, the intent is to develop and launch more focused working groups on different aspects of implementation going forward (e.g. specific implementation projects and/or strategies).
What's next for the Implementation Hub?
What's next for the Implementation Hub?
- Recruitment for the Lung Health Foundation's Approach to behaviour change Working Group (April 2022)
Research Hub
The Research Hub will ensures researchers stay engaged in the research program at the Lung Health Foundation and are kept up to date on progress as the program evolves and is ultimately executed. The Lung Health Foundation is redefining its research program in 2022 and will be engaging with researchers throughout the process. This Hub will be critical to that process.
What's next for the Research Hub?
What's next for the Research Hub?
- Establishment of the Research Interest Group is underway building from the work of both the Research and Fellowship Committee of the Ontario Respiratory Care Society and the Research Advisory Committee of the Ontario Thoracic Society. Additional recruitment is expected in April 2022. The Lung Health Foundation will work closely with this group to shape its approach to the development of its new Research Program.
- Consultation process with Network members will begin in May 2022
Speakers Bureau
The speakers’ bureau is a group of lung health experts who speak on behalf of the Lung Health Foundation and are able to relay health information and Foundation messages to a variety of audiences in manner that engages and informs. Audiences could include patients, healthcare providers, funding partners and others interested in improving the lung health of Canadians – in person and virtually. Speakers may also be asked to participate in media interviews, as speakers for fundraising events or as presenters at educational events.
Leadership
In the coming months the following opportunities will be available for members to have a more active role with the Lung Health Foundation to shape the Network:
- Network Advisory
- Network Promotion and Engagement Working Group
- Network Collaboration Committee
