Network for health research launched

Canadian Medical Association Journal 1996; 154: 1070

Health researchers are being linked with private- and public-sector organizations involved in research in an effort to improve Canada's health care system. The collaboration, called the Health Evidence Application and Linkage Network (HEALNet), is one of four newly created Networks of Centres of Excellence; the headquarters is at McMaster University in Hamilton. HEALNet, which involves 87 researchers from 16 Canadian universities, will develop information-based tools designed to improve the health of workers, productivity in the workplace and efficiency within the health care system. The collaboration is funded by the federal government, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and the Medical Research Council. The scientific leader is Dr. George Browman.

| CMAJ April 1, 1996 (vol 154, no 7) |