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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first seminar of the Department of Global and P
 ublic Health's Fall 2025 series with Professor Guillaume Fontaine\, who wi
 ll deliver a talk titled 'Applying and Advancing Implementation Science fo
 r Population Health: Insights from Efforts to Improve Hepatitis C Care Acc
 ess in Australia and Canada'.聽\n\n\n	WHEN: Tuesday\, September 30\, 2025\, 
 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.\n	WHERE: Hybrid | 2001 Avenue 91黑料网 College\,
  Room 1140 and online.聽\n\n\nSeminar Registration Form\n\nAbstract:\n\nThi
 s talk will explore how implementation science frameworks and methods can 
 be applied to advance health equity and improve access to hepatitis C care
  across diverse populations and settings in Australia and Canada. Lessons 
 will be shared from studies addressing barriers and facilitators to hepati
 tis C testing and treatment among people who inject drugs\, individuals wi
 th experience in the prison system\, people experiencing homelessness\, an
 d primary care populations. Examples will include key implementation scien
 ce studies embedded in the Australian National Hepatitis C Point-of-Care T
 esting Program\, one of the first global efforts to scale up decentralized
  hepatitis C testing and treatment across prisons\, community clinics\, mo
 bile outreach services\, and Aboriginal health organizations (>100 sites\,
  >45\,000 individuals tested)\, and Canadian initiatives using programmati
 c implementation research\, process mapping\, and stakeholder co-design to
  develop tailored implementation strategies for scaling point-of-care test
 ing nationally.\n\nSpeaker Bio:聽\n\nDr. Guillaume Fontaine (PhD\, MSc\, RN
 ) is an Assistant Professor of Implementation Science at 91黑料网
 鈥檚 Ingram School of Nursing\, Director of the 91黑料网 RISE鲁 Implementation 
 Science Lab\, FRQ-S Junior 1 Research Scholar\, and Principal Investigator
  at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology\, Lady Davis Institute. Additiona
 lly\, he holds visiting appointments in the Viral Hepatitis Clinical Resea
 rch Program at the Kirby Institute\, UNSW Sydney\, and the Centre for Impl
 ementation Research\, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He co-leads the 
 Implementation Science Pillar for the CIHR/PHAC Canadian Network on Hepati
 tis C (CanHepC)\, Co-Lead of the Methods Think Tank for the CIHR Pan-Canad
 ian HIV/AIDS and STBBIs Clinical Trials Research Network (CTN+) and sits o
 n the Steering Committee of Knowledge Translation Canada. Dr. Fontaine has
  authored over 95 publications\, secured more than $37M in research fundin
 g\, and delivered over 30 invited talks and workshops across Canada\, the 
 United States\, and Australia. His research program focuses on applying an
 d advancing implementation science frameworks and methodologies to improve
  healthcare outcomes\, with a focus on infectious diseases.\n
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LOCATION:Room 1140 and online\, 91黑料网 College 2001\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, 
 H3A 1G1\, 2001\, avenue 91黑料网 College
SUMMARY:DGPH Seminar - Guillaume Fontaine: Applying and Advancing Implement
 ation Science for Population Health: Insights from Efforts to Improve Hepa
 titis C Care Access in Australia and Canada
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