Alliance for Healthier Communities

This Alliance Lunch 'n' Learn Webinar was presented in October 2024. , Phoebe Lee, a community dietitian at Black Creek Community Health Centre shared insights about how pervasive weight stigma and anti-fat bias in health care settings present barriers to access and patient safety. The webinar included small- and large-group discussions aimed at helping participants recognize the anti-fat biases in their own practices and organizations and co-designing strategies to remove them.

This webinar, recorded on October 2, 2024, presents some of our sector's key learnings about sociodemographic data (SDD) collection in community primary health care settings. 

The Alliance for Healthier Communities created this resource to help Alliance member organizations understand the relationship between client health complexity ("SAMI" score) and panel-size targets.

Dr. Jennifer Rayner, the Alliance's Director of Research and Policy, presented this at the 2024 Alliance Conference: Co-Designing the Future of Primary Health Care, as part of the Governance stream. It's an overview of the key things board directors at Alliance-member organizations need to know about sociodemographic (SD) data collection, including:

This document was created by the Alliance for our members and their community partners who received IPCT funding in Spring 2024. It addresses emerging questions from the sector, related to new and updated reporting requirements as well as impacts on panel size, SAMI scores, and SAAs.

If you would like further elaboration on these questions and answers, or if you have questions not addressed by this document, please email Christine.Randle@AllianceON.org. 

Ce rapport est disponible en français ici.

In this interactive webinar, Dr. Jaky Kueper and Sara Bhatti described the progress made in Phase 1 of the Alliance Practice-Based Learning Network (PBLN) project to develop an AI decision-support tool, described the roadmap for Phase 2, and gathered feedback from participants to inform the Phase 2 co-design process.

This one-page infographic is a companion to the report, Towards a Learning Health System: Better Care Tomorrow When We Learn from Today. It provides an overview of what a learning health system is and why it's important; elements of the Alliance's Learning Health System; an example of the full learning cycle in practice; and ways to participate. 

The Alliance for Healthier Communities and its member organizations have long been committed to continuous learning and evidence-informed practice. Until now, the work to support this commitment has been weighted towards data collection and technical infrastructure building. These elements are important foundations for the Learning Health System, but in themselves, they are not sufficient to complete the cycle of learning. Combining this foundation with new processes of learning and improvement will result in a complete system, a Learning Health System.