In 2019, I completed my PhD in Aging, Health, and Well-Being at the University of Waterloo. My thesis examined need for and outcomes of publicly funded personal support services in Ontario, with the goal of supporting consistent, transparent, and equitable access to these services.
As a CIHR Health System Impact Fellow, I am supporting the planning, engagement, implementation, and evaluation of the Burlington Ontario Health Team (OHT), one of 24 communities forming the inaugural cohort of OHTs in the province. The Burlington OHT brings together health and social service providers in the Burlington and surrounding areas to work as one team. Our vision is to co-create, with patients and community members, a primary care-led and home and community-based system of care. I am grateful to receive the mentorship of Dr. John Hirdes (PhD, FCAHS) and Dr. Cheryl Williams (RN, PhD, CHE). My fellowship is jointly funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Joseph Brant Hospital.
Areas of interest: integrated care, community-based care, virtual care, population health, chronic disease management, clinical decision support, patient & community engagement
Pronouns: she/her
Email: cjsinn@uwaterloo.ca
External links: ORCID iD | Publons | Canadian Research Information System
I acknowledge that I am a settler who benefits from living and working on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron, Anishinabek, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples. This includes territory protected by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant (an agreement to share and care for the land and all living beings on it) as well as the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Haudenosaunee that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.
University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo
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