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Gateway research institute receives $35,000 Trillium grant
Susan Hundertmark
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A $35,000 grant from the Trillium
Foundation will allow the Gateway
Rural Health Research Institute to
begin sharing the information its re-
search has collected.
"Normally research ends up in a
medical journal bound up in a book
and placed up on a nice library shelf.
Very rarely do communities benefit
from it," said Dr. Claudio Munoz,
Gateway's research director. "Our
goal is to provide information to the
policy makers to benefit the commu-
nity."
Munoz said, for example, that it's
important to communicate the re-
sults of a recent study done by Gate-
way and the Lawson Institute that
looked at ways to prevent diabetes
using simple lifestyle changes and
technology to record the results.
"By doing very minimal lifestyle
changes, it benefitted the partici-
pants hugely. Diabetes is a big prob-
in
academic centres.
In presenting the
grant, Huron -Bruce
MPP Carol Mitchell
thanked Gateway for
the work it is doing in
the community, add-
ing that the statistics
Gateway is gathering
about health problems
in rural communities is
very helpful.
"Your collection of
information is noticed
Trillium chair Kathy Pletsch and Huron -Bruce MPP Carol and appreciated in the •
Mitchell present a Trillium donation to Gateway Praelwork I do. We need to
dent Lin Steffler and DE, Claudio MIMOZ. see more information on
lem and we have 50 per cent high- rural communities," she
er rates in rural areas than in any said.
urban location," said Munoz. "This Kathy Pletsch, local Trillium grant
grant will help us communicate that review chair, said she and her corn -
type of information back to the com- mittee were very excited to receive
munity." Gateway's grant proposal.
He added the grant will also al- "We give away 100 grants a year
low the Institute to tell people about and every now and then a grant pro -
Gateway and "what we're all about" posal comes in that generates a lot
and to continue cpminunicating with of dismission. We all wanted more
information about Gateway and how
far it will reach," said Pletsch.
"Everyone thought, Wow, maybe
this idea could move across the prov-
ince as a model. Thank you from the
community for what you propose to
do," she said.
Gateway president Lin Stefiler
said the Gateway board will be hold-
ing a strategic planning session Oct.
23 and 24 to look at the best ways to
gain sustainable fundiug and to com-
municate its findings with the com-
munity.
"The $35,000 will give us the means
to find out how to do it in the most
effective manner," she said, adding
that seminars and workshops for
target groups could result from the
strategic planning.
Gateway, which was incorporated
fin 2008, is the first community -driv-
en research centre in Canada explor-
ing healthcare issues such as diabe-
tes, obesity, high blood pressure and
Cardiovascular conditions, in rural
communities.
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