Insights

Events & talks

We present at conferences and regularly deliver talks that center community voice and create space for shared learning. Our approach is always rooted in lived experience and systems thinking, offering insights that invite collaboration, challenge assumptions, and spark collective action.

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McMaster Health Forum's Stakeholder Dialogue

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Making Integrated Care Happen

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Management and Leadership for Integrated Care

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The New Era for Management and Leadership Competencies

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Implementing Integrated Care

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19th International Conference on Integrated Care Celebration

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Social Prescribing and the Future of Health & Community in Canada

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Human Level Transformation for Collective Impact

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Harnessing Stories of Change in Health and Social Care Systems

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Virtual

21st International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC21)

Realising the true value of Integrated Care

International Foundation for Integrated Care

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Croatia (Virtual)

20th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC20)

The Virtual Conference was was done during COVID-19 and was attended by over 1,000 integrated care experts representing over 80 countries.

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

San Sebastian, Basque Country

19th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC19)

Evaluating and implement models of integrated people-centred services

International Foundation for Integrated Care

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Caregivers As Partners: Knowledge Mobilization Day

Jodeme Goldhar gives the keynote presentation for the Caregivers As Partners Knowledge Mobilization Day, hosted by the Ontario Caregiver Organization.

Ontario Caregiver Organization

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Virtual

Leading and Supporting Change within Ontario’s Healthcare System

Jodeme Goldhar moderates a discussion on strategies for leading and supporting change within Ontario's healthcare system, emphasizing the importance of co-design and collective impact. Speakers Helen Bevan and Cathy Fook

The Change Foundation

Event details →

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Co-designing for Health and Wellbeing with Individuals and Communities

This panel explores the critical importance of co-designing integrated care systems by actively partnering with patients, families, and communities to ensure services are person-centered and effective. It highlights how

Longwoods Breakfast with the Chiefs

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Virtual)

1st North America Conference on Integrated Care (NACIC21)

The 1st North American Conference on Integrated Care in association with the 6th World Congress on Integrated Care took place as a virtual conference in partnership with the University of Toronto, KPM

International Foundation for Integrated Care

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Odense, Denmark

22nd International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC22)

The 22nd International Conference on Integrated Care took place in Odeon in Odense, Denmark, from 23 – 25 May 2022.

International Foundation for Integrated Care

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Virtual

The Critical Role of Partnering with the Volunteer Sector to Enable Integration

Integration is the lever to enable population health and wellbeing.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

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Virtual

Collaborative Governance: Towards the Next Level of Integrated Care

In this session, you will have the opportunity to engage about the critical role of collaborative governance in integrated health systems from the perspective of policy-makers, members of collective g

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

Advancing Integrated Care with Digital Health Innovation

In this session, they shared learnings from the recent special issue of the Journal of Integrated Care (Emerald), which helps to advance our understanding of the role of digital health in integrated models of care.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Antwerp, Flanders

23rd International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC23)

Care in action: how to work together, a participatory approach

International Foundation for Integrated Care

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Virtual

IFIC Canada - Our Path Ahead

It has been 5 years since our initial launch of IFIC Canada at the ICIC18 Conference in Utrecht.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

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Co-Designing Approaches to Citizen Co-Led Design, Execution and Oversight of Health System Transformation

Jodeme Goldhar's insights from the McMaster Health Forum's stakeholder dialogue on co-designing sustainable approaches to the citizen co-led design, execution and oversight of health-system transformations in Canada.

McMaster Health Forum's Stakeholder Dialogue

Event details →

Virtual

The Relationship between Patient and Caregiver Engagement and Integrated Care

Integrated care is an approach to healthcare that aims to improve patient outcomes and experiences by coordinating and integrating different aspects of care across various healthcare providers and settings.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

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Virtual

Meeting the Needs of People Living with Frailty: Lessons from the Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre UK

The NHS is under increasing strain. With an ageing population, hospitals struggling with soaring demand and the biggest ever workforce crisis, the NHS is in need of long term solutions.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

How Does Policy Support Integrated Care? International Examples, Ontario Practice

Health systems around the world are aligned in aiming to improve on quadruple aim goals of patient and provider experience, health outcomes and value creation.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

Valuing Family Caregivers and their Caregiving

anada has prioritized facility-based funding—developing more long-term care beds rather than focusing on care in the community.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

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Belfast, Northern Ireland

24th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC24)

‘Taking the leap: making integrated care a reality for people and communities’,

International Foundation for Integrated Care

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Highlights from Canada’s Social Prescribing Conference 2024

Advancing social prescribing's transformative potential for a more connected future.

Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing

Event details →

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

2nd North America Conference on Integrated Care (NACIC24)

‘Creating Health with Integrated Care’

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

IFIC Canada Integrated Care School 2024

This immersive learning experience responds to demand from the health and aged care sectors in Canada and North America to help build knowledge, capacity and skills to support the effective design and adoption of integrated care in practice.

IFIC Canada

Event details →

Lisbon, Portugal

25th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC25)

This conference brings together leaders, researchers, clinicians, managers, community representatives, patients and caregivers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and care.‍

Meghan Perrin

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Utrecht, The Netherlands

International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare

This is an international conference for those concerned with improving healthcare, quality improvement and patient safety.

BMJ

Event details →

Virtual, New-Zealand

Collaborative Aotearoa International Learning Series - Canada

Jodeme Goldhar and Alika Lafontaine share their expertise in collective impact and the importance of inter-organisational / inter-sectorial integration as the approach to enable population health, and community health ac

Collaborative Aotearoa

Event details →

Virtual

IFIC Canada Virtual Community Session | Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being

Around the world, health and social systems are recognizing the urgent need to move beyond fragmented, institutional approaches toward models of care that are rooted in relationships, community, and connection to land an

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

IFIC Canada Virtual Community Session | Uncovering the Power of Integrated Care

Co-hosted by Walter Wodchis and Jodeme Goldhar, this session brought together hundreds of participants from Canada and internationally to explore how community drives health and well-being. Speakers shared real examples:

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Alberta, Canada

How to Enable an Integrated Health System in Alberta

This presentation, delivered by Jodeme Goldhar at the IHE Forum in September 2025, explores the necessity of building integrated care systems to bridge gaps in health and social care. It provides actionable evidence-base

Institute of Health Economics

Event details →

Toronto, ON

Inaugural Integrated Care Action Summit (ICAS25)

Learn more about Jodeme's keynote and masterclass on harnessing our collective potential

Ontario Health Teams

Event details →

Virtual

Partnering with People with Lived Experience to Enable Person-Centered Integrated Care

Across Canada, people with lived experience are leading transformative work in integrated care. From national networks to research partnerships, this leadership is creating the infrastructure needed for genuine co-design

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

Advancing Integrated Community-Based Primary Health Care

With primary care reform underway across jurisdictions, this session explored how to move from aspiration to practice in building integrated primary care systems.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Birmingham, England

26th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC26)

The 26th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC26) Integrated Care for All: Promoting Health and Wellbeing Through Diversity will take place on 13-15 April 2026.

Meghan Perrin

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Ottawa, ON

CAHSPR 2026

Canada's premier multidisciplinary conference for health services and policy research.

Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research

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Virtual

Indigenous Approaches to Integrated Community-Based Primary Healthcare

This webinar created space to listen, learn and reflect on Indigenous approaches to health, wellbeing and integrated care.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

Digitally Enabled Integrated Care: Ambition, Adoption, and Scale

This session builds on developments since the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Digital Health Special Interest Group explored the definition of digitally enabled integrated care thr

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

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Tallinn, Estonia

ICIC27 - 27th International Conference on Integrated Care

From Integration to Impact - Delivering better outcomes through data, coordination and population health, invites participants to examine how better data, stronger coordination, digital innovation and

International Foundation for Integrated Care

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

NACIC27 - North American Conference on Integrated Care

NACIC27 will explore how communities can shape and strengthen health and wellbeing.

International Foundation for Integrated Care

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Past events and talks

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

NACIC27 - North American Conference on Integrated Care

NACIC27 will explore how communities can shape and strengthen health and wellbeing.

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Tallinn, Estonia

ICIC27 - 27th International Conference on Integrated Care

From Integration to Impact - Delivering better outcomes through data, coordination and population health, invites participants to examine how better data, stronger coordination, digital innovation and

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Virtual

Digitally Enabled Integrated Care: Ambition, Adoption, and Scale

This session builds on developments since the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Digital Health Special Interest Group explored the definition of digitally enabled integrated care thr

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

Indigenous Approaches to Integrated Community-Based Primary Healthcare

This webinar created space to listen, learn and reflect on Indigenous approaches to health, wellbeing and integrated care.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Ottawa, ON

CAHSPR 2026

Canada's premier multidisciplinary conference for health services and policy research.

Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research

Event details →

Birmingham, England

26th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC26)

The 26th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC26) Integrated Care for All: Promoting Health and Wellbeing Through Diversity will take place on 13-15 April 2026.

Meghan Perrin

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Virtual

Advancing Integrated Community-Based Primary Health Care

With primary care reform underway across jurisdictions, this session explored how to move from aspiration to practice in building integrated primary care systems.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

Partnering with People with Lived Experience to Enable Person-Centered Integrated Care

Across Canada, people with lived experience are leading transformative work in integrated care. From national networks to research partnerships, this leadership is creating the infrastructure needed for genuine co-design

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Toronto, ON

Inaugural Integrated Care Action Summit (ICAS25)

Learn more about Jodeme's keynote and masterclass on harnessing our collective potential

Ontario Health Teams

Event details →

Alberta, Canada

How to Enable an Integrated Health System in Alberta

This presentation, delivered by Jodeme Goldhar at the IHE Forum in September 2025, explores the necessity of building integrated care systems to bridge gaps in health and social care. It provides actionable evidence-base

Institute of Health Economics

Event details →

Virtual

IFIC Canada Virtual Community Session | Uncovering the Power of Integrated Care

Co-hosted by Walter Wodchis and Jodeme Goldhar, this session brought together hundreds of participants from Canada and internationally to explore how community drives health and well-being. Speakers shared real examples:

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

IFIC Canada Virtual Community Session | Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being

Around the world, health and social systems are recognizing the urgent need to move beyond fragmented, institutional approaches toward models of care that are rooted in relationships, community, and connection to land an

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual, New-Zealand

Collaborative Aotearoa International Learning Series - Canada

Jodeme Goldhar and Alika Lafontaine share their expertise in collective impact and the importance of inter-organisational / inter-sectorial integration as the approach to enable population health, and community health ac

Collaborative Aotearoa

Event details →

Utrecht, The Netherlands

International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare

This is an international conference for those concerned with improving healthcare, quality improvement and patient safety.

BMJ

Event details →

Lisbon, Portugal

25th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC25)

This conference brings together leaders, researchers, clinicians, managers, community representatives, patients and caregivers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and care.‍

Meghan Perrin

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

IFIC Canada Integrated Care School 2024

This immersive learning experience responds to demand from the health and aged care sectors in Canada and North America to help build knowledge, capacity and skills to support the effective design and adoption of integrated care in practice.

IFIC Canada

Event details →

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

2nd North America Conference on Integrated Care (NACIC24)

‘Creating Health with Integrated Care’

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Highlights from Canada’s Social Prescribing Conference 2024

Advancing social prescribing's transformative potential for a more connected future.

Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing

Event details →

Belfast, Northern Ireland

24th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC24)

‘Taking the leap: making integrated care a reality for people and communities’,

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Virtual

Valuing Family Caregivers and their Caregiving

anada has prioritized facility-based funding—developing more long-term care beds rather than focusing on care in the community.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

How Does Policy Support Integrated Care? International Examples, Ontario Practice

Health systems around the world are aligned in aiming to improve on quadruple aim goals of patient and provider experience, health outcomes and value creation.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

Meeting the Needs of People Living with Frailty: Lessons from the Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre UK

The NHS is under increasing strain. With an ageing population, hospitals struggling with soaring demand and the biggest ever workforce crisis, the NHS is in need of long term solutions.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

The Relationship between Patient and Caregiver Engagement and Integrated Care

Integrated care is an approach to healthcare that aims to improve patient outcomes and experiences by coordinating and integrating different aspects of care across various healthcare providers and settings.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Co-Designing Approaches to Citizen Co-Led Design, Execution and Oversight of Health System Transformation

Jodeme Goldhar's insights from the McMaster Health Forum's stakeholder dialogue on co-designing sustainable approaches to the citizen co-led design, execution and oversight of health-system transformations in Canada.

McMaster Health Forum's Stakeholder Dialogue

Event details →

Virtual

IFIC Canada - Our Path Ahead

It has been 5 years since our initial launch of IFIC Canada at the ICIC18 Conference in Utrecht.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Antwerp, Flanders

23rd International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC23)

Care in action: how to work together, a participatory approach

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Virtual

Advancing Integrated Care with Digital Health Innovation

In this session, they shared learnings from the recent special issue of the Journal of Integrated Care (Emerald), which helps to advance our understanding of the role of digital health in integrated models of care.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

Collaborative Governance: Towards the Next Level of Integrated Care

In this session, you will have the opportunity to engage about the critical role of collaborative governance in integrated health systems from the perspective of policy-makers, members of collective g

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Virtual

The Critical Role of Partnering with the Volunteer Sector to Enable Integration

Integration is the lever to enable population health and wellbeing.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community

Event details →

Odense, Denmark

22nd International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC22)

The 22nd International Conference on Integrated Care took place in Odeon in Odense, Denmark, from 23 – 25 May 2022.

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Virtual)

1st North America Conference on Integrated Care (NACIC21)

The 1st North American Conference on Integrated Care in association with the 6th World Congress on Integrated Care took place as a virtual conference in partnership with the University of Toronto, KPM

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Co-designing for Health and Wellbeing with Individuals and Communities

This panel explores the critical importance of co-designing integrated care systems by actively partnering with patients, families, and communities to ensure services are person-centered and effective. It highlights how

Longwoods Breakfast with the Chiefs

Event details →

Virtual

Leading and Supporting Change within Ontario’s Healthcare System

Jodeme Goldhar moderates a discussion on strategies for leading and supporting change within Ontario's healthcare system, emphasizing the importance of co-design and collective impact. Speakers Helen Bevan and Cathy Fook

The Change Foundation

Event details →

McMaster Health Forum's Stakeholder Dialogue

Event details →

Making Integrated Care Happen

Event details →

Management and Leadership for Integrated Care

Event details →

The New Era for Management and Leadership Competencies

Event details →

Implementing Integrated Care

Event details →

19th International Conference on Integrated Care Celebration

Event details →

Social Prescribing and the Future of Health & Community in Canada

Event details →

Human Level Transformation for Collective Impact

Event details →

Harnessing Stories of Change in Health and Social Care Systems

Event details →

Virtual

21st International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC21)

Realising the true value of Integrated Care

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Croatia (Virtual)

20th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC20)

The Virtual Conference was was done during COVID-19 and was attended by over 1,000 integrated care experts representing over 80 countries.

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

San Sebastian, Basque Country

19th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC19)

Evaluating and implement models of integrated people-centred services

International Foundation for Integrated Care

Event details →

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Caregivers As Partners: Knowledge Mobilization Day

Jodeme Goldhar gives the keynote presentation for the Caregivers As Partners Knowledge Mobilization Day, hosted by the Ontario Caregiver Organization.

Ontario Caregiver Organization

Event details →

The Centre for Systems Collaboration

Connection is the correction.

© 2026

The Centre for Systems Collaboration

Connection is the correction.

© 2026

The Centre for Systems Collaboration

Connection is the correction.

© 2026