IPR.Global Pearls - Building Resilience in Health Care in the time of COVID-19 through Collaboration - A Call to Action

In 2020, InterprofessionalResearch.Global produced a report: "Building Resilience in Health Care in the time of COVID-19 through Collaboration - A Call to Action".

This Call to Action is developed by the IPR.Global COVID-19 Taskforce – Resilience Initiative Group with number of global experts in healthcare resiliency and interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) who have been working together over 10 months to develop and share relevant and timely information.

The goal of this report was to raise awareness and urge the global health care communities to act strategic and bold, by using system approach, to address the imminent threat of a parallel burnout pandemic through collaboration. This Call to Action provides a global strategy in using collaboration to build and lead resilience in health care at all levels, from individuals and teams to organizations and systems.

Khalili, H., Lising, D., Gilbert, J. Thistlethwaite, J., Pfeifle, A., Maxwell, B., Başer Kolcu, I., Langlois, S., Najjar, G., MacMillan, K. Al-Hamdan, Z., K., Schneider, C. R., Kolcu, G., El-Awaisi, A., Ward, H., Rodrigues, F. J.,. (2021). Building Resilience in Health Care in the time of COVID-19 through Collaboration - A Call to Action (978-1-7366963-0-9). 

LINK: https://interprofessionalresearch.global/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IPR-Global-Health-Care-Resilience-Call-To-Action-24-02-21.pdf

Introducing Interprofessional Research.Global "Pearls"

Building on the success of our Scholar Spotlight series, the Interprofessional Research.Global Communications and Marketing Work Group have teamed up with the Knowledge Exchange Work Group to develop IPR.Global Pearls.  

The goal of this initiative is to share impactful research on interprofessional collaboration to a wider audience through an infographic that presents the how that research can translate to the "3 P's" of Pedagogy, Practice and Policy.  

Each of these infographics with be accompanied by a blog post that will link readers to the article citation and full text link.

If you have research you would like to feature in these "Pearls" please use the IPR Global Updates submission link.

Online Nexus Summit 2021 Kicks Off With Over 6 Days of Virtual Learning

Nexus Summit 2021 kicks off next Tuesday, September 14! You are invited to over six days of virtual learning designed to push thinking and move toward action about what matters most to those we serve.

The 2021 meeting features more than 250 peer-reviewed seminars, lightning talks and posters showcasing outcomes-oriented initiatives. All registrants will have archived access to the session through December 31, 2021. 

Browse through the 200+ sessions taking place at Nexus Summit 2021, and begin to plan your Summit itinerary with the Daily Schedule. 

Explore all six plenaries and themes that will inform and contextualize the learning of each day.

Dive into Conversation Cafes designed to take important topics and move from discourse toward actionable next steps to shape the work ahead.

Explore the Reflective Guides and Learning Tracks, designed to support you in customizing your experience and focus your learning.

Join a Virtual Town Hall on the IPEC Core Competencies for Inteprofessional Collaborative Practice hosted by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) 

Make sure to register so that you don't miss this important learning experience.

IPR.Global Scholar Spotlight - Dr. John H. V. Gilbert, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC Canada)

Hello, I am John Gilbert. Throughout my long career I have been passionately interested in the education of health and social care professionals, not only in British Columbia, and Canada, but also globally. I have attempted through my research, teaching, writing and public speaking to embed the concept of interprofessional education as a central tenet of collaborative people-centred practice and care. Like Chaucer’s Clerk of Oxford, “gladly wolde I lerne and gladly teche.”

I was the founding Director of the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia and the Principal of the College of Health Disciplines, also at UBC. It is my privilege and pleasure to be a Senior Scholar at the WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Planning and Research, Dalhousie University, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. I have been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and at the National University of Malaysia. From 2016 2020 it was my great honour to hold the DR. TMA Pai Endowment Chair in Interprofessional Education & Practice, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India a program with which I count myself most fortunate to remain connected. 

As Co-Chair of the WHO Study Group on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice I worked with colleagues around the world to develop a framework for action on those topics – now adopted worldwide, in innumerable education and practice jurisdictions. Our work on IPE, supported by Health Canada, led to my role as founding chair of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative – now one of the members of the confederation – Interprofessional.Global, and its special interest group Interprofessional Research.Global. I have the joy of being accorded many honours of which I am proud - a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, appointment as a Member of the Order of Canada, the degree Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa from Dalhousie University. Together with Dr. Bud Baldwin and Dr Mattie Schmitt I was immensely honoured to be a recipient of the Pioneer Award from the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education.

My greatest joy, and a source of lasting pleasure, has been the invitations I have received to give talks (and Webinars) on IPE in 24 countries during the past 16 years. My academic background gives me a particular focus on communication between and amongst everyone engaged along the continuum of IPE. I never cease to be incredibly impressed by the ways in which our new discipline is being woven into education and practice in so many different cultures and languages. I have always been so warmly greeted in each country I have visited  on the “business of IPE” and have made amazing friends and colleagues in all those places. Every day I recognize how blessed I am to be in the company of those who, around the world, are working in many new and innovative ways to embed the discipline of IPE in their health and social care education and practice programmes. 

During each season of the year, you may find me pottering in my vegetable garden – amazed, always, that seeds often less than a few millimetres in size, can produce such wonderful food.

Interprofessional Research.Global Scholar Spotlight is a regular feature that highlights member research in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice.  

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