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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.

Co-designing a welcome package for people with lived and living experience (PWLLE) at MSSU

Location: Maritimes
Institution: MSSU
Deadline: November 8, 2025
Want to help create a welcoming space for people with lived or living experience new to MSSU?

Enhancing Equitable Breast/Chest Cancer Screening for Gender Diverse Communities

Location: New Brunswick
Institution: Horizon Health Network
Deadline: November 11, 2025
Seeking transgender, non-binary, and two-spirted individuals to share their perspectives and experiences about chest/breast cancer screening.

Co-Designing a Digital Health Literacy Tool to Support Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Decision Making with Young Men who Have Sex with Men (YMSM)

Location: Canada
Institution: Dalhousie University
Deadline: November 14, 2025
Turn your experience into impact — help co-create a tool to support HPV vaccination for men who have sex with men.

Quality improvement of breast reduction post-operative care instructions

Location: Nova Scotia
Institution: Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery Dalhousie University and Nova Scotia Health
Deadline: October 31, 2025

Identifying Individual Differences in Thoughts During Exercise: A Think-Aloud Study to explore how thoughts relate to exercise avoidance in people with lived experience of anxiety

Location: New Brunswick
Institution: University of New Brunswick
Deadline: December 31, 2025
This research explores how fears about exercise impact physical activity in people with anxiety disorders. Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is when people with anxiety disorders misinterpret exercise-related sensations (e.g., sweating and elevated heartbeat) as signs that something is seriously wrong in their body.

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

Location: Maritimes
Institution: MSSU
Deadline: November 1, 2025
The Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit (MSSU) is hosting a series of community conversations 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: October 31, 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: October 31, 2025
Researchers are looking for patient partners to join us in several new research projects that aim to improve women+ health in the Maritimes.

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.
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