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Engaging Patients. Supporting Researchers. Improving Health Together. Welcome to SCPOR!

We provide support to patients and researchers who are interested in working together to make positive changes in our healthcare system.

10/17/2025

Looking for a comprehensive cancer database with tumor data, demographics, and more? The Saskatchewan Cancer Registry Database is now available in HRDP-SK! Learn more at scpor.ca/hrdpsk

10/16/2025

🧡Today on , we are grateful to share a new scoping review. In this work, we summarized the literature on with since the 1960s and collaborated with community members affected by , integrating their perspectives and recommendations.🧡

👇See below the key messages and recommendations of this review.👇

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10/16/2025

REACH Resident Research Day promises to showcase exciting and innovative research being conducted across the province! Check out our line up of presentations and join College of Medicine - University of Saskatchewan's OVDR, PGME and SCPOR on October 23! Learn more and register at https://www.scpor.ca/reach

10/06/2025

Regina researchers - Are you interested in data-driven health research in Saskatchewan? Join us at the University of Regina on October 7 to find out how you can use health data in Saskatchewan and across Canada through HRDP-SK and HDRN Canada. Free to attend and refreshments will be provided!

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10/02/2025

Join us in Regina next week on Oct 7 for two fantastic workshops on Effective Communication and Leadership in patient-oriented research. These skills are useful in any context! Visit scpor.ca/upcoming-events to learn more and register!

09/29/2025

09/25/2025

Congrats to Dr. King and her team who can now access health data in the HRDP-SK to support their important work in the Virtual Cascade of Care Cohort (VCCC). Click here to learn more.

The Virtual Cascade of Care Cohort (VCCC) is a pan-Canadian ‘virtual cohort’ study to document and analyze the hepatitis C virus (HCV) cascade of care in diverse groups of people with current or past injection drug use experience. Led by Dr. Alexandra King, the Saskatchewan compo

09/25/2025

It's so inspiring to hear stories about successful patient-oriented research teams and the amazing work they do together. Join us Oct 1 at 11am to hear from Dr. Heather Nelson and Patient Partner Deborah Norton as they share their POR journey. Register at

Join us as we launch another season of our speaker series, where experts in POR share their experiences!

09/24/2025

There's still time to register for this event taking place this afternoon! Note the new room number: Health Sciences 1A04. Learn more and register at https://scpor.ca/upcoming-events

09/18/2025

Join us next week for the Effective Leadership course! This will be beneficial for those in patient-oriented research and beyond. Visit https://www.scpor.ca/upcoming-events/2025/9/23/effective-leadership-in-por-workshop to learn more and register.

There's a leader in all of us! Our Professional Learning Series presents Effective Leadership in POR in Saskatoon on September 24 (watch for Regina events in October)! Learn more and register at https://scpor.ca/upcoming-events

09/16/2025

Did you miss the August edition of SCPOR Report? Catch up with all the back-to-school events and updates at

Join us as we head back to school and close off summer with the August edition of SCPOR Report.

09/16/2025

Dr. Mary Ellen Labreque and her team will begin using HRDP-SK data to highlight services provided by Saskatchewan Nurse Practitioners (NP) over the past 10 years, an area into which there has been no formal inquiry to date. Learn more at

Another exciting project is accessing health data in the HRDP-SK! Dr. Mary Ellen Labreque and her team will begin using HRDP-SK data to highlight services provided by Saskatchewan Nurse Practitioners (NP) over the past 10 years, an area into which there has been no formal inquiry to date. H

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What is SCPOR?

Identify and address the needs of patients, policy makers, and health professionals by supporting patient-oriented research;

Provide links to methods expertise in patient-oriented research;

Assist decision makers and investigators to identify and design research studies, conduct statistical analyses, manage data, provide and teach project management skills, and ensure studies meet regulatory standards;

Advance methods and training in comparative effectiveness research and develop the next generation of methodologists;

Facilitate access to Saskatchewan health data and integrate existing or new databases;

Provide traineeships for University students interested in hands-on experience in patient-oriented research (See Trainees Page).

SCPOR is also committed to supporting Rural and Indigenous health research in the province. The Indigenous Platform advises and contributes to SCPOR programs and activities to advance SCPOR’s core values and build capacity in Indigenous-specific engagement and research across the province.

CIHR’S SPOR Strategy

SCPOR is one of eleven provincial/territorial units led by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to build provincial and national capacity for patient-oriented research. CIHR launched the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) to foster evidence-informed health care. Read more about CIHR’s SPOR strategy here.

The Saskatchewan Centre for Patient-Oriented Research (SCPOR) is a coalition of organizations that support patient-oriented research in Saskatchewan. It is one of a number of provincial units supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to build provincial and national capacity for patient-oriented research. See our list of partners here.

Patient-oriented research is research done in partnership with patients and their families and caregivers, that answers research questions that matter to patients, and aims to improve health care.

The vision of CIHR’s SPOR initiative includes two critical elements. The first is patient-oriented research teams which include patients and family members as partners in the grant writing and research process. The second is the inclusion of decision makers (including policy makers and health authority leaders) and health care practitioners throughout the research process.

The goal of this way of doing research is to have patients, families, clinicians, researchers and policy-makers work together to identify research topics, do the research and then use the results of that research to improve patient care and the health system.

Why is Patient-Oriented Research Important?

Patient involvement has been shown to guide research to more relevant questions, improve data collection methods, and improve data interpretation. Patients also have a role to play in knowledge translation. The contribution of health care practitioners and decision makers helps guide the research on a practical, sustainable path and their involvement in research speeds up the process of translating new knowledge into policy and to the bedside.

To learn more about organizing a patient-oriented research team, see our Researchers Page.

Are you interested in getting involved as a patient or family member? See our Patients Page.

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