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Do you have lived experience with a health issue or with a Maritime healthcare system? Explore opportunities to get involved in patient-oriented research.

Public Perspectives on Health Data Use: Community Conversations Across the Maritimes

Location: Maritimes
Institution: MSSU
Deadline: September 17, 2025
The Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit (MSSU) is hosting a series of community conversations across the Maritimes to learn about public perspectives on health data and its use for health system management, research, and innovation.

A Scoping Review on Eating Disorders Among Bisexual Women

Location: Nova Scotia
Institution: Dalhousie University Faculty of Health
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Join a research project exploring how bisexual women are represented in academic studies about eating disorders.

Advancing women+ health research in the Maritimes

Location: Maritimes
Institution: IWK Health
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Researchers are looking for patient partners to join us in several new research projects that aim to improve women+ health in the Maritimes.

Call for Patient Partners: Help Shape Research on Sexual Health after Cancer

Location: New Brunswick
Institution: University of New Brunswick
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Are you 19+ and diagnosed with cancer in the last five years? You are invited to become a patient partner in a project exploring sexual health needs of cancer survivors.

Co-designing a social prescribing approach for primary care in Nova Scotia

Location: Nova Scotia
Institution: Dalhousie University
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Looking for Patient/Public Partner to co-design a social prescribing plan for Nova Scotia.

Collaborative Priority-Setting to Strengthen Community-Based Mental Health Care in Rural Nova Scotia Study

Location: Nova Scotia
Institution: St. Francis Xavier University
Deadline: September 5, 2025
Researchers are seeking people with lived and/or living experience of mental health conditions living in rural Nova Scotia to participate in a Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP).

Co-designing a Sedative Hypnotic Deprescribing Mailout in New Brunswick

Location: New Brunswick
Institution: MSSU-Horizon Health
Deadline: December 31, 2025
Do you have trouble sleeping? If you are 65+ and use or used sleeping pills, you could help co-design education materials on the risks of overusing sedatives.

BETTER - ED

Location: Atlantic Canada
Institution: Dr. Patrick Archambault Research Team
Deadline: September 30, 2025

Exploring the implementation and impacts of the Adult Comfort Promise

Location: Nova Scotia
Institution: IWK Health
Deadline: August 8, 2025
Have you had a gynecological procedure at the IWK? Your voice can help improve how pain is managed for women and gender diverse adults. The IWK's Adult Comfort Promise study is exploring ways to make gynecological procedures more comfortable and equitable by addressing pain and gender bias in care.

New Brunswick Provincial Steering Committee

Location: New Brunswick
Institution: MSSU
Deadline: September 5, 2025
We are seeking a Patient/Public Partner to become a member of the New Brunswick Steering Committee.

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