Centres & Programs

The Applied Education Research Operatives (AERO) team partners with clinical educators to enhance their innovations and research, and to mobilize the knowledge they generate. AERO develops contracted relationships with colleagues in need of AERO scientists’ and investigators’ services to support and coordinate their projects.

The Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC) provides a full spectrum of expertise in clinical trials, observational epidemiology, qualitative research, data management and research informatics, and patient and community engagement in clinical research.

The Biomedical Zone is a physician-led, hospital-based health technology incubator in downtown Toronto. Our supportive, dynamic environment allows entrepreneurs to engage with like-minded innovators, while accessing dedicated clinical expertise and entrepreneurial resource. The Biomedical Zone offers the resources needed to accelerate product development from early prototype stages to commercialization.

The Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR) is an independent, not-for-profit organization co-sponsored by Unity Health Toronto and the University of Toronto. CGHR’s mission is to lead high-quality public health research that advances global health for all, with particular attention to the world’s poorest populations.

The Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST) is a partnership between Toronto Metropolitan University and St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto that brings together Toronto Metropolitan University’s engineering and science strengths with St. Michael’s biomedical research and clinical expertise to translate research concepts into testable health-care solutions.

Located within the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science at St. Michael’s, iBEST’s access to biomedical, technological and clinical expertise allows its members and partners to identify challenges and rapidly pilot, modify and introduce biomedical discoveries and inventions to improve health.

The Interprofessional Practice-Based Research (IPBR) team partners with clinicians (typically nurses and health disciplines) across Unity Health to help them engage in practice based research in order to inform research based practice. IPBR provides various research and educational supports, from the point of idea development, through to knowledge translation and dissemination.

The Knowledge Translation Program (KTP) works with researchers to develop a strategy to put knowledge into practice at both the clinical and policy level. The KTP  goals are to:

• improve the quality of patient care and strengthen our health systems by partnering with knowledge users to co-produce knowledge and co-develop, implement and evaluate strategies that bridge the knowledge-to-practice gaps; and

• research the most effective ways to co-produce knowledge with knowledge users and translate that knowledge into practice and policy, thereby optimizing return on research investment, addressing health disparities, and strengthening the health system.

The MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions (MAP) is a world-leading research centre dedicated to creating a healthier future for all. Through big-picture research and street-level solutions, our scientists tackle complex community health issues — many at the intersection of health and equity. Internationally recognized for groundbreaking science and innovation, MAP has changed the way the world understands the health consequences of social inequality in Canada.

Together with our community and policy partners, we are charting the way to the world’s healthiest cities: places where people, communities, and the political, economic, social, environmental, and health infrastructures come together so that everyone can thrive.

The MAP Survey Research Unit (SRU) is part of the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solution with expertise in health equity research data collection as well as recruiting and interviewing diverse populations.