Join our 2025-2026 Webinar Series!
Please register to receive the Zoom link for each webinar.
To submit questions in advance of the webinar, please use this form.
For more information, please contact Kerryn van Rooyen (kerryn.vanrooyen@uhn.ca)
Please register to receive the Zoom link for each webinar.
To submit questions in advance of the webinar, please use this form.
For more information, please contact Kerryn van Rooyen (kerryn.vanrooyen@uhn.ca)
Date: September 17th 2025
Speaker: Kerryn van Rooyen, CanHepC Training & Education Operations Lead
This webinar will go over expectations for CanHepC Trainees and answer any questions you may have about the program.
**Due to the nature of content covered in this Orientation, this session is for CanHepC trainees only. External students with questions should contact kerryn.vanrooyen@uhn.ca.
Date: November 26th 2025, 3-4pm ET
Speaker: Dr Sonya MacParland (UHN/U of T)
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This webinar will explore strategies for obtaining research funding.
Speaker:
Dr Sonys MacParland - Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute
Date: October 8th 2025, 3-4pm ET
Panelists: Drs Sofia Bartlett (BCCDC), Nasheed Moqueet (PHAC), Christopher Ablenas (Health Canada)
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This panel will explore careers in health research in Canada.
Panelists:
Dr Sofia Bartlett - Interim Scientific Director (BC Centre for Disease Control), Assistant Professor, UCB School of Population and Public Health
Dr Nasheed Moqueet - Senior Epidemiologist, Public Health Agency of Canada
Dr Christopher Ablenas - Senior Biologist/Evaluator, Health Canada
Date: October 22nd 2025, 3-4pm ET
Panelists: Drs Sahar Saeed (Queens), Gillian Kolla (Memorial), Che Colpitts (Queens)
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This panel will explore careers in academia from the perspective of previous CanHepC Trainees.
Panelists:
Dr Sahar Saeed - Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Queens University
Dr Gillian Kolla - Assistant Professor of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dr Che Colpitts - Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queens University
Date: November 12th 2025, 3-4pm ET
Speaker: Dr Zahid Butt (Waterloo)
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This webinar will explore how AI is being used in Health Research today.
Speaker:
Dr Zahid Butt - Associate Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
Date: December 10th 2025, 3-4pm ET
Speakers: Dr Alexandra King, Sherri Pooyak, Carrielynn Lund, Renée Masching (Pewaseskwan)
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This webinar will explore strategies for community engagement in research, perticularly when engaging with Indigenous Peoples.
Speakers:
Dr Alexandra King- Associate Professor Cameco Chair in Indigenous Health and Wellness,College of Medicine (USask), Pewaseskwan co-lead
Sherri Pooyak - Indigenous Platform Coordinator, Pewaseskwan
Carrielynn Lund - Project Coordinator, Pewaseskwan
Renée Masching - Consultant, Pewaseskwan
This webinar will explore 'What is Health Equity?" and how to use the community effectiveness gauge to see the systems effects on equity impact.
Speaker:
Janet Hatcher-Roberts - Adjunct Professor, SEPH, University of Ottawa
WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation
Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity
Date: February 11th 2026, 3-4pm ET
Panelists: TBC
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Date: March 11th 2026, 3-4pm ET
Speakers: Dr Alexandra King, Sherri Pooyak, Carrielynn Lund, Renée Masching (Pewaseskwan)
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This webinar will data governance considerations for Indigenous Peoples and the appropriate considerations taken during research projects.
Speakers:
Dr Alexandra King- Associate Professor Cameco Chair in Indigenous Health and Wellness,College of Medicine (USask), Pewaseskwan co-lead
Sherri Pooyak - Indigenous Platform Coordinator, Pewaseskwan
Carrielynn Lund - Project Coordinator, Pewaseskwan
Renée Masching - Consultant, Pewaseskwan
September 20 2023
Norma Choucha
Administrative and Training Program Coordinator
October 04 2023
Nadine Kronfli
Assistant Professor, McGill University
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Chronic Viral Illness Service
McGill University Health Centre, Glen site
October 18 2023
Rod Russell
Professor of Virology and Immunology
Vice President, Canadian Society for Virology
Editor-in-Chief, Viral Immunology
Division of BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
Memorial University
November 01 2023
Gillian Kolla
Postdoctoral Researcher
Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, University of Victoria
November 15 2023
Jordan Feld
R. Phelan Chair in Translational Liver Disease Research.
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto.
Research Director, Toronto Centre for Liver Disease.
Senior Scientist, Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health, TGRI, University Health Network
November 29 2023
December 13 2023
Christopher Ablenas
Senior Biologist / Evaluator
Health Canada | Santé Canada
January 17 2024
Jennifer van Gennip
Executive Director
Action Hepatitis Canada
Janet Butler-McPhee
Director of Communications and Advocacy
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
February 14 2024
Imogen Coe
Professor of Chemistry and Biology
NSERC Scholar-in-Residence (with focus on EDI in STEM)
March 27 2024
Jason Altenberg
Chief Executive Officer
South Riverdale Community Health Centre