who is co-creath?

about co-creath labs

About CO-CREATH Labs?

COLLABORATIVE CRITICAL RESEARCH FOR EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION IN HEALTH LAB

The Collaborative Critical Research for Equity and Transformation in Health (CO-CREATH) Lab is a hub for researchers, trainees, and community partners conducting critical research to advance health equity and transformative community engagement. It builds capacity using a social sciences approach to better understand the complex interplay of various determinants of inequities in health and health care. It emphasizes the importance of mentoring, recognizing the fluidity of roles when members learn with and from each other.

CO-CREATH Lab promotes research that unpacks the complexity of health inequities identifying innovations and
creates solutions to challenges confronting health systems in their attempts to deliver high-quality care to a
diverse society.

CO-CREATH was established by Dr. Josephine Etowa, Professor of Nursing (University of Ottawa) and Ontario HIV/AIDS Treatment Network (OHTN) Chair in Black Womens’ Health and HIV Prevention and Care.

COLLABORATIVE CRITICAL RESEARCH FOR EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION IN HEALTH LAB

CO-CREATH Lab was established in 2016 by Dr. Josephine Etowa, Professor of Nursing and Ontario HIV/AIDS Treatment Network (OHTN) Chair in Black Women’s Health and HIV Prevention and Care at the University of Ottawa.

MISSION

Our Mission
Our lab aims to improve health outcomes through transformation, equity, and community empowerment research. The complexities inherent in health, healthcare, and today’s research community demand that individuals, groups, institutions, communities, and governments become more creative. We need to transform old arrangements, fashion new relationships, and new understandings.
Our Vision

This vision inspires the name CO-CREATH that we have adopted and informs how our hub functions.

 We use various theoretical frameworks and research traditions to critically examine contemporary issues and to strategically engage actors in the research contexts.

HOW WE WORK

We are a hub for researchers, trainees, and their community partners conducting critical research to advance health equity and transformative community engagement. 

We build capacity using a social sciences approach to better understand the complex interplay of various determinants of inequities in health and health care, emphasizing the importance of mentoring, and recognizing the fluidity of roles when members learn with and from each other.

VISION AND WORLDVIEW
The CO-CREATH Lab and Dr. Etowa’s program of research are philosophically guided by various theoretical frameworks and research traditions in order to critically examine contemporary issues and to strategically engage actors in the research contexts.

Community Partners

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