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Investing in Innovation is our Future...Budget Moves in the Right Direction…
The Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), is encouraged by Budget 2010 in its recognition of the role that research hospitals and their research institutes play in advancing the country’s innovation agenda.

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Video release: In Sickness & in Health - What does Patient Involvement in Health Research Really Mean? An ACAHO- CIHR Cafe Scientifique, May 6, 2010
In ACAHO-member organizations, which are first and foremost patient care organizations, vibrant research enterprises involve patients and families in life-saving research and innovation. What type of research happens in academic healthcare organizations? This was the topic of the May 6, 2010 CIHR-ACAHO Cafe Scientifique on Patient Involvement in Health Research.

ACAHO Appears Before House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance

On October 8, 2009, Dr. Jack Kitts (Chair, ACAHO), and Mr. Glenn Brimacombe (President & CEO, ACAHO) appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. In their opening remarks and the questions and answer session that followed, ACAHO focused on the three priorities that they have identified for consideration for Budget 2010: (1) create a one-time National Health Delivery Infrastructure Fund; (2) accelerate investments in health research through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); and (3) address the current GST anomalies that negatively affect the healthy system. Click here to read the speech.

October 14, 2009