Kahkiyaw wahkomâkanitik (All my relations) - Igniting IDEAS within the Brain-Heart Interconnectome initiative

About

BHI is an innovative interdisciplinary research initiative focused on expediting efforts to prevent, identify, treat, and provide care for brain-heart illnesses. Notably, the BHI-IDEAS strategy aims to challenge the status quo, examine decision-making practices and criteria, and embed open and transparent processes across the BHI program to help shape program development and implementation.

Mitewekan brings Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing to the BHI as we collectively strive for de-coloniality and reconciliation.

As part of these collaborative efforts, we have organized the BHI-IDEAS Call to Action Event to be held in Ottawa. The aim of this event is to increase awareness of identified and unidentified needs within a diverse and multidisciplinary research community, such as BHI, to promote more inclusive and equitable brain and heart research.

Event program description

The “Kahkiyaw wahkomâkanitik (All my relations) | Igniting IDEAS within the BHI Initiative” event will run in three different stages:

First, a pre-event asynchronous training will be made available to all those participants who register for the in-person sessions (April 16-17, 2024). The goal of this training is to set an IDEAS knowledge baseline amongst the participants to enhance their experience during April’s sessions. 

Secondly, a full day dialogue and networking session is planned to bring together experts on IDEAS practices and to facilitate discussion and exchange of ideas within the BHI community.

Lastly, three hands-on learning sessions have been prepared to apply the IDEAS principles to scientific and health-related research activities.

Important: Access to all the training opportunities listed here is free of charge.
 

Ideas certificate

To be issued post event to attendees participating in all of the activities: Pre-event training + IDEAS Dialogues + 3 IDEAS Workshops
 

Pre-event asynchronous training - March 2024

Title: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Starter Pack
Goal: Understanding and applying key principles and practices, approaches, and strategies for EDI implementation in the workplace
Registration details: To be sent by Friday, March 15, 2024 via email
Modality: Online asynchronous
Time commitment: 8 hours
Completion deadline: April 6, 2024
Important: Mandatory requirement for in-person attendees
 

1. Ideas dialogues (Event Day 1)

Modality: Hybrid

• Register below for in-person or virtual attendance
• In-person attendance: Limited to 100 seats
• Virtual audience attendance: Unlimited seats

Date & time: April 16, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET

• Attendance registration open from 8 a.m. to 8:50 a.m. ET
• Dinner and networking session from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET

Location: uOttawa Desmarais Building, 55 Laurier Ave E 12th floor, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Room: DSM-4101 (Camille Villeneuve)

Agenda: During this day, 10 short presentations by guest speakers followed by Q&A and dialogue timing have been scheduled to cover diverse IDEAS topics.

• Session 1: Equity, diversity, and inclusion in Biomedical and Health Sciences Research development and implementation
• Session 2: Systemic ableism in Biomedical Research and Health Sciences
• Session 3: Creating meaningful accessibility and inclusion
• Session 4: Indigenous wisdom transforms our understandings of ability
• And more…

Note: Food and drinks will be available throughout the event

Disclaimer: Registration cancellation must be done within at least 2 weeks (14 days) prior to the event. A monetary penalization of $100 CAD will be issued if you fail to notify the organizing committee ([email protected]).
 

2. Ideas Workshops (Event Day 2)

Modality: In person
Attendance is limited to 90 seats (30 participants per workshop session)

Date & time: April 17, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
Attendance registration open from 8 a.m. to 8:50 a.m. ET

Location: uOttawa Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building, 100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3

Agenda: Three different workshops on IDEAS in Research and Healthcare, each lasting 1.5 hours, will run in parallel at three different times to allow attendees to participate in all of them. Thirty-minute breaks have been scheduled after each workshop session.

Topics: 

• Indigenous ways of knowing
• Preparing effective and authentic EDI sections for Biomedical and Healthcare Research
• How to create accessible documents

Note: Food and drinks will be available throughout the event