Episodes 53
Avg. Duration 35m
Activity Moderate
Since Jun 2020
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Matters of Engagement examines issues at the intersection of health, health care and society. Including: how people in Canada access and experience health care service delivery and distribution; how those experiences impact both individual and community health; and the multitude of environmental, systemic, and political factors that favour some and disadvantage many. Jennifer Johannesen and Emily Nicholas Angl produce each episode with the aim of illuminating difficult or confounding issues, to provoke much-needed critical dialogue among all stakeholders.

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Optics over Impact: Patient Engagement at the Provincial Level

Mar 31, 2026 19m Transcript

Sangeeta Chopra-Charron came to Ontario Health's Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) with a background in transformational change and a genuine belief that Ontario Health was sincere about…

Zooming Out: Research, Implementation, and the Road Ahead (BETTER Women 5/5)

Mar 12, 2026 23m

In this fifth and final episode of the BETTER Women series, Jennifer and Emily zoom out from the study itself to explore what the results actually mean — and why mixed findings are far from failure.…

CHILD-BRIGHT: Voices of Youth Involved in Research

Dec 18, 2025 22m

In this special collaboration with the Knowledge Mobilization Program at CHILD-BRIGHT, a pan-Canadian research network focused on children and youth with brain-based developmental disabilities, we…

Learning From Unexpected Results: What the Numbers Didn't Capture (BETTER Women 4/5)

Dec 02, 2025 29m

The BETTER Women research team gathered to review their findings, hoping to see clear evidence that peer health coaching improved women's preventative health behaviours. But the…

Voices from the Heart of the Project: Peer Health Coaches (BETTER Women 3/5)

Oct 01, 2025 39m

Meet the peer health coaches - the volunteers at the heart of the BETTER Women project. Through candid conversations, we hear from women who underwent extensive training in motivational interviewing…

The Science behind Peer Health Support (BETTER Women 2/5)

Sep 23, 2025 28m

How do you design a study to test whether peer support actually works? In this episode, we dive into the nuts and bolts of the BETTER Women research project - a randomized controlled trial examining…

Going "Upstream" to Prevent Chronic Disease (BETTER Women 1/5)

Sep 16, 2025 29m

We know our Canadian healthcare system is overloaded, and that preventative care may help address the increasing pressures on chronic and emergency care services. But how best to support people to…

✨ Coming soon! ✨ The 5-part BETTER Women Series ❤️

Sep 09, 2025 5m

Discover how peer support could revolutionize Canadian healthcare in this groundbreaking 5-part series from Matters of Engagement, in collaboration with the Canadian Cancer Society and the BETTER…

⭐ REPLAY! ⭐ Discussing Failures in Participatory Research, with Lori Ross

Aug 28, 2025 45m

This REPLAY! episode first aired December, 2021.  New introduction by Emily Nicholas Angl, followed by a full replay of the episode. Also, we've added some publications to the show notes (scroll…

⭐ REPLAY! ⭐ Vagueness of language, unarticulated assumptions, and maintaining the status quo

Aug 14, 2025 40m

This REPLAY! episode first aired November, 2022.  New introduction by Jennifer Johannesen, followed by a full replay of the episode. Vagueness of language, unarticulated assumptions, and maintaining…

We're Back! Matters of Engagement Returns with a Splash 🌊

Aug 11, 2025 2m

After more than a year of no new episodes, we're rebooting Matters of Engagement—literally from the cottage dock! Between cicada serenades and turtle sightings, we're announcing exciting new…

Caregiving and Work

Jan 03, 2024 55m

We're doing something a little bit different! We're taking a shot at making video along with the podcast! You can watch this episode on our YouTube channel, or as always, you can listen in your…

S5E1 ”How did we do?” : A debrief on the role of Lived Experience Advisors in a healthcare research project

Jul 13, 2023 1h 8m

What exactly is the best way to engage patients in a healthcare research project? Well, it's hard to say definitively. Funders like CIHR often require patient involvement, but very little direction…

S4E9 Spring Update 2023: Checking in with Jen and Em

Jun 13, 2023 8m

It's been a while since we've published an episode!  We have lots on the go these days. Come hang out with Jen and Em as we wrap up the Health Policy series and share what's next. [download…

S4E9 Beyond Mandates: The Essential Input of Residents in Long-term Care Policy (Health Policy Series)

Feb 16, 2023 48m

A widely-held assumption is that all residents of Long-term Care (LTC) homes are frail, elderly and in need of sweeping protections as determined by government, policy-makers and LTC home management.…

S4E8 Critical Reflections on Public Engagement (Health Policy Series)

Dec 15, 2022 47m

We're bringing conference vibes to the podcast and presenting a short series of critical work on public engagement from members of the Public Engagement in Health Policy team.  We noted themes of:…

S4E7 Transformative Public Engagement: Pitfalls, Possibilities and Promise - keynote by Dr. Jamila Michener (Health Policy Series)

Nov 29, 2022 46m

On September 22, 2022, the Public Engagement in Health Policy project team at McMaster University hosted a one-day conference, Reimagining public engagement in a changing world. Community members,…

S4E6 Understanding Legitimacy in Public and Patient Engagement, with Katherine Boothe (Health Policy Series)

Nov 17, 2022 39m

What makes an engagement process legitimate?  How do technical experts feel about engagement, and how have their ideas of legitimacy changed over time?  These are just some of the questions we…

S4E5 Deliberation, Democracy and Public Engagement: A Conversation with Kim McGrail (Health Policy Series

Sep 15, 2022 45m

Kim McGrail is the Scientific Director of Health Data Research Network, a CIHR funded initiative whose work in the health data space has implications for, well, everyone living in Canada. And they're…

S4E4 The Business and Politics of Engagement, with John Perenack of StrategyCorp (Health Policy Series)

Jul 26, 2022 49m

In previous episodes we've talked a lot about high-level rationales for engagement, like democratic principles and moral or ethical obligations. But we haven't really got into some of the operational…

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