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The Aging, Community and Health Research Unit (ACHRU) designs, evaluates and translates innovative community-based interventions to improve access to health and social care, health-related quality of life, and health outcomes for people 55 years and older.
The research program includes our valued patient and public research partners, decision-makers, staff and trainees.
Associate Professor, McMaster University School of Nursing
Scientific Director, Aging, Community and Health Research Unit
Director, Patients Expertise in Research Collaboration (PERC)
Co-Lead, McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging
Scientific Director, Aging, Community and Health Research Unit
Dr. Rebecca Ganann is an Associate Professor in the McMaster University School of Nursing. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science (Nursing) and Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing) from McMaster. Concurrently with her PhD, she also completed a graduate diploma in Health Sciences and Policy Research. During her PhD studies, Dr. Ganann was awarded a CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Dr. Ganann completed her postdoctoral fellowship (2015-2016) with the Aging, Community and Health Research Unit and completed strategic training in transdisciplinary primary health care research.
ACHRU was created with funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Community-Based Primary Health Care Signature Initiative and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health System Research Fund Program Award. ACHRU continues to build on this research program with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Ontario SPOR Support Unit (OSSU), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Pan-Canadian SPOR Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations (PIHCI), Labarge Centre for Mobility and Aging, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), and Diabetes Action Canada.
This OSSU Research Centre in Aging, brings together world-class researchers from ACHRU and the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA). The mandate of the collaborative is to build capacity and advance Ontario’s health care system by using an integrated, coordinated, and people-centered approach.
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