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)
CanHepC Orientation with Kerryn van Rooyen
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.
Research Funding 101
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
Career Panel: Health Research
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
Career Panel: Academia
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
Overview of Artificial Intelligence in Health Research
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
Community Engagement in the Context of Indigenous Research
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
Career Panel: Pharmaceutical Industry
Date: February 11th 2026, 3-4pm ET
Panelists: TBC
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Data Governance
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
2023-2024
Non-Academic Career Path
December 13 2023
Christopher Ablenas
Senior Biologist / Evaluator
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Postal address
University Health Network
Toronto General Hospital
200 Elizabeth Street, 9EB-234
Toronto (ON) M5G 2C4
CanHepC's administrative office is situated on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.
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