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Explore our curated resources to design patient-oriented research and engagement activities using equity, diversity, and inclusion principles. 

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Fairness is Excellence: The Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit’s Equity Framework

Source: Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit

 This source outlines reasons researchers should take health equity seriously, provides general principles for addressing health equity in research and guiding researchers when: 

  1. Selecting research topics and developing proposals
  2. Engaging with patients and the public
  3. Supporting, retaining and fining research staff and trainees
  4. Conducting research
  5. Analyzing results
  6. Exchanging knowledge (including reporting results)

Best Practices in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research Practice and Design 

Source: Government of Canada
  1. What is “EDI?”
  2. Systemic barriers in academia and the research ecosystem
  3. Addressing EDI in (funding) applications
  4. EDI in research practice (research team and research environment)
  5. Feasibility (research plan)
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