Every November, the Research Department hosts a month of collaborative events, bringing together leaders and researchers, healthcare providers and patients to learn about the importance of translating evidence into practice to improve care and outcomes.
Recordings from previous years are linked below.
November 2025
Registration is now open! Save your seat today and join us for a month of inspiration, innovation, and celebration:
Wednesday, Nov. 5 (12 – 1:30 pm)
Knowing the Risks: Lowering Cannabis-related Harms and Reducing Alcohol Consumption
Wednesday, Nov. 12 (8:15 am – 2:30 pm)
Translating Good Clinical Practice ICH E6(R3) into Action: Together We Can (Western Regional N2 Meeting; view the agenda)
Friday, Nov. 14 (11 am – 1 pm)
Walking Together to Create an Indigenous Framework for Diabetes Care
Thursday, Nov. 20 (11 am – 12 pm)
Complex Relational Trauma and Complex PTSD: Closing the Gap in Healthcare for Patients
Friday, Nov. 21 (10 am - 12 pm)
Improving Care for Vancouver Island Seniors (online and in person in Victoria)
Monday, Nov. 24 (12 – 1 pm)
Advancing Island Health’s Response to Climate Change
Friday, Nov. 28 (12 – 1:30 pm)
Evidence-into-Practice Presentations & Awards Ceremony
- 2024 Events
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Monday, November 4, 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Everything You Wanted to Know about Evidence in Health Care… But Were Afraid to Ask (recording)
Thursday, November 7, 11 - 12 p.m.
Community Virtual Care: Harnessing Technology to Connect, Empower and Improve (recording)
Tuesday, November 12, 12 - 1 p.m.
Advancing Evidence-Informed Decision-Making at Island Health (recording)
Thursday, November 14, 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Monday, November 18, 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Bridging research and practice in Long-Term Care: Improving quality of care through the INFORM model (recording)
Thursday, November 21, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Walk With Me: A Learning Health System Response to the Toxic Drug Crisis (recording)
Tuesday, November 26, 12 - 1:30 p.m.
There’s a Rock in my Shoe! Clinician-Led Knowledge-to-Action (recording)
Friday, November 29, 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Evidence-into-Practice Presentations & Awards Ceremony (recording)
- 2023 Events
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- Thursday, November 2: 2 - 3 p.m. Canada’s Journey from Research to Impact (recording)
- Wednesday, November 8: 12 - 1:30 p.m. Addressing overdose risks and fatalities: the Safer Bathroom Toolkit (recording)
- Wednesday, November 15: 12 - 1 p.m. There's a rock in my shoe! Examples of Clinician-Led Knowledge to Action (recording)
- Friday, November 17: 12 - 2 p.m. A Model for Intercultural Collaboration in Psychedelic Research (recording)
- Tuesday, November 21: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. The Rise of Health Misinformation, the Consequences, and the Cures (recording)
- Tuesday, November 28: 2:30 - 4 p.m. Generating knowledge to reduce preterm births in Quw’utsun (Cowichan) territory (recording)
- Thursday, November 30: 12 - 1:30 p.m. Evidence-into-Practice Presentations and Award Ceremony (recording)
- 2022 Events
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- Thursday, November 3: 4 - 7:30 p.m. Health XChange: How are Local Innovators Transforming Healthcare? (recording)
- Friday, November 4: 10 - 11 a.m. There's a rock in my shoe! Examples of Clinician-Led Knowledge to Action (recording)
- Wednesday, November 9:10 - 11 a.m. What You Need to Know: Knowledge Translation Practice and Research (recording)
- Wednesday, November 9: 12 - 1 p.m. Pain Education Day: Facilitating Patient Pathways (recording)
- Wednesday, November 9: 1 - 2 p.m. Getting Research Evidence into the Right Hands: Examples of Innovative Health Knowledge Mobilization (recording)
- Tuesday, November 15: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Integrated Métis-Led Research: Improving Access to Health Services (recording)
- Friday, November 18: 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Choosing Wisely: Climate Conscious Quality Improvement in Action (recording)
- Tuesday, November 22: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Leading Change in the Health System: How to Make It Stick
- Tuesday, November 22: 12 - 1 p.m. A Conversation on Emerging Research Evidence in Psychedelic Therapy
- Thursday, November 24: 10 - 11 a.m. We Needed One, and then COVID Happened: Managed Alcohol Programs in the Context of the COVID-19
- Thursday, November 24: 1 - 2 p.m. Harm Reduction – Substance Use Policy: Walking Our Talk
- Friday, November 25: 12 - 1:30 p.m. 10th Annual Knowledge-to-Action Presentation and Awards Ceremony
- 2021 Events
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View recordings on our Vimeo channel.
- 2020 Events
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Heads Together Virtual Think Tank: Research & Prevention - Best Practices to address the Intersections of Mental Health, Addiction & Brain Injury
Substance use grand rounds: Drug Checking: Implementing harm reduction in dual public health crisis
- 2019 Events
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View recordings on our Vimeo channel.
- 2018 Events
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View recordings on our Vimeo channel.