The Social Impact Funding Program – Medical Summer Student Research Program (MSSRP) stream is a continued collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine’s Research Office, offering two ways of student engagement in research for the program’s social accountability priority area: faculty-initiated and community-led. This year, we matched 7 students to projects. All participating students were invited to attend knowledge and progress sharing sessions throughout the summer to enhance overall student experience.
Community-led:
| Learner | Project Title | Supervisor |
| Julia Fagen | Environmental scan of Ottawa-based organizations supporting Crisis Response and Wraparound Services for Mental Health and Substance Us | Liz Wigfull and Sahada Alolo, Ottawa Guiding Council for Mental Health and Addictions Secretariat |
| Solène Martin | Mental Wellbeing Response Team (MWRT) | Logan Martin, Ottawa Paramedic Service |
| Sayed Mohammed Behbehani | Racialized Youth Mental Health Resilience/Youth Mental Health | Reuben Nashali, Social Planning Council of Ottawa |
| Sierra Land and Jordyn Linders | Ottawa Regional Profiles Literature Review | Kady Carr, Ottawa Neighbourhood Study team, Faculty of Medicine |
Faculty-led:
| Learner | Project Title | Supervisor |
| Paul Loudovski | Empowering older adults from linguistic and ethno-cultural minority groups to co-design recommendations for improvements to care and service delivery in the Montfort Hospital Emergency Department and surrounding community. | Dr. Jonathan Gravel |
| Jessica Brown | Evaluating participatory approach to social justice in research | Dr. Vivian Welch |
| Laila Fazal | Validating clinical indicators for a safe early hospital discharge at less than 24 hours for healthy, term newborns and reviewing health complications of newborns discharged in the Montfort Postnatal Care at Home Program. | Dr. Julie Nault |
