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Mara Mallory
Posted: February 12, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Team News, Media, Partners
The New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training at UNB has joined forces with the Atlantic Institute for Policy Research and FutureReadyNB to host the very first Pathways to Professions. Pathways to Professions is a 13-week (May 18 - Aug. 14, 2020) paid summer program for undergraduate students at UNB interested in research, communi- cations, and more. Successful applicants will...
Read the full postEvidence-informed policy is not that easy
Herb Emery
Posted: February 11, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Government, Social Policy
Is public input displacing science? Next month, the Standing Committee on Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship, an “all party” committee of the Legislative Assembly, will hold public hearings “seeking input on the use of pesticides, herbicides, including glyphosate, in the province”. The committee will make non-binding recommendations “to inform lawmakers...
Read the full postNB-IRDT is hiring a program evaluator
Mara Mallory
Posted: February 1, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Team News
Are you interested in doing fascinating work that makes a real difference in New Brunswick? We're hiring a program evaluator to work with our Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge Transfer Unit (MEKTU). MEKTU is the result of a partnership between NB-IRDT and the New Brunswick Aging Secretariat. The unit coordinates the active program evaluation of funded projects under the Healthy Seniors...
Read the full postData Access Support Hub launched
Mara Mallory
Posted: February 1, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Datasets, Partners, Population Research
The Health Data Research Network (HDRN) has launched the Data Access Support Hub (DASH), a one-stop shop for requesting access to data from multiple provincial, territorial and pan-Canadian sources. This initiative is made possible through the through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR), which is a collection of funding partnerships between the Canadian Institutes of Health...
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