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Gateway hires two staff to secure funding and administer
the institute as rural health research continues
Susan Hundertmai k
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Securing sustainable funding that
will allow research to proceed .into
the health of rural residents is the
main focus of two new employees at
the Gateway Rural Health Research
Institute.
"It's going fairly well. I find it
builds up team as we go along so Fm
pretty hopeful," says Sam Kooshesh,
hired as a grant proposal writer to
find funding from both private and
government sources.
"Anything that is going to happen
is based on funding so we need both
community, support and government
support to continue with these great
initiatives for the community," says
Shelly Pearson, hired as administra-
tor of Gateway.
While the two have been work-
ing for Gateway for the past month,
Pearson says she's already had peo-
ple walk in off the street with dona-
tions for Gateway.
"And, that speaks to the nature of
what we're trying to accomplish,"
Sam Kooshesh and Shelly Pearson
says Kooshesh, adding that he's
excited by the way the community-
based institute is generating enthu-
siasm in the local community.
Kooshesh, who currently lives in
the Greater Toronto Area, says he
was attracted to the job when he
attended a career fair at Lakehead
University in Thunder Bay where he
is completing his Masters of Public
Health.
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was very engag-
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way," he says,
adding that he
appreciated that
Gateway wants to
do research that
will not be "ivory
tower."
With expe-
rience working
in Thunder Bay,
Kooshesh says he's
noticed how most health research is
done on the urban residents who iive
closest to universities while people
in rural and remote areas could have
entirely different results if they were
studied.
"Most research is not applicable to
them (rural and remote residents).
The tobacco rates, the diet and life-
style behaviour is really a different
story than the provincial average
and that has paved the way for Gate-
way," he says, adding that with nine
million rural Canadians, Gateway's
research is very important.
"We want to conduct research that
represents rural Canadians = that's
what we're about," he says.
. Pearson, who grew up in Clinton
and joins Gateway after working in
marketing and communications at
Volvo, says she's intrigued by the
possibilities of what Gateway can do
to improve rural health.
"Rural health means the world to
me and there's a lot we (Gateway)
can do. From northern Bruce County
to southern Huron County, people
are starting to know about Gateway.
We're getting such great feedback
from the community," she says.
Pearson adds that along with im-
proving the health of the community,
Gateway's efforts are bound to im-
prove the local economy. •
"We will attract more healthcare
professionals to the area, I believe,"
she says.
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