Rehabilitation and Technology

2025-2030: Improving access to rehabilitation services for people living with complex rehabilitation needs  

using high-quality telerehabilitation services . Canadian Foundation for Innovation

• 2025-2027: Improving access to rehabilitation services for equity seeking individuals living with an acquired brain injury: a participatory co-design of telerehabilitation services. ***looking for participants***

• 2024-2026: Knowledge synthesis on technology and rehabilitation

  • The Feasibility, Accessibility and Acceptability of Telerehabilitation for People with Acquired Brain Injury: An Umbrella Review. Ashlea Stirling, Erika Delucilla, Danika Walsh, Kaelan Elizabeth Jolliffe, Emilie Plourde, Jennifer O’Neil Protocol registration here

  • The use 3D printing technology in neurorehabilitation for adults: a Scoping Review. Salena Aggerwal, Zahra Lalani, Jennifer O’Neil. Preprint here

  • Technology-based interventions used in rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy in LMIC’s: a Scoping Review. Zahra Lalani, Salena Aggerwal, Jennifer O’Neil

Community-Based Rehabilitation and Capacity-Building Project

2023-2027: An international collaborative process to improve access to basic physiotherapy in global heath context

• 2023-2024: An international collaborative process to identify research priorities around access of rehabilitation services in Uganda. Jennifer O’Neil PT, PhD, Jacquie van Ierssel PT, PhD, Robert Bwambale, Peter Baluku, Brian Stephen Budgell PhD, NGO Partner CanUgan, Kira Bullock, DPT.  Funded by CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) Planning and Dissemination Grant, Funding Reference Number/ PCS 191027

• 2025-2026: Evaluation of an eHealth Assistive Device Provision Training Tool: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Rachel Sudhakar and Jennifer O’Neil PT, PhD. Biomedical Sciences Honours Research Project.

Programme de télésanté de prévention des chutes Marche vers le Futur (MVF)

2021-2025 : A Telehealth falls prevention program/ Un programme de télésanté de prévention des chutes

• 2023-2025: L’équité et l’efficacité de deux versions de prestation du programme de télésanté de prévention des chutes Marche vers le Futur.  Jennifer O’Neil PT, Ph.D, Jacinthe Savard OT, PhD, Katrine Sauvé Schenk OT, PhD, Martin Bilodeau PT, PhD. Financée par Santé Canada et le CNFS-National dans le cadre du Plan d’action pour les langues officielles – 2023-2028 : Protection-promotion-collaboration. Les opinions exprimées ne représentent pas nécessairement celles de Santé Canada 

• 2022-2023:  Le programme de télésanté de prévention des chutes Marche vers le Futur : Développement d’une communauté de pratique québécoise et franco-canadienne. Jennifer O'Neil, CISSSO, Jacinthe Savard, Charles Tardif, David-Alexandre Lalancette, Anne-Hudon, Hélène Gagné. Financée par  Secrétariat du Québec programme d’appui à la Francophonie Canadiennes Volet 3

• 2021-2023: Renforcer les capacités de communautés francophones en situation minoritaire à offrir le programme Marche vers le futur. Jacinthe Savard, Jennifer O’Neil, Dominique Cardinal. Financée par  Santé Canada et la Société Santé en français.

  • O'Neil et al. 2025. Reach, Adoption, and Implementation Strategies of a Telehealth Fall Prevention Program: Perspectives From Francophone Communities Across Canada. Health Promot Pract. 2025 May;26(3):569-578.

Improving Access to Physiotherapy and Community-Based Rehabilitation

PhD thesis

2023-2027: Elizabeth Thibault, PhD thesis titled: Access to fall screening in Canada

1. Fall Screening Practices in Emergency Departments : a scoping review protocol. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/VE5WQ Elizabeth Thibault, Maryam Khaleqi-Sohi, Matthieu Boisgontier, Jennifer O'Neil.

2023-2027: Maryam Khaleqi-Sohi, PhD thesis titled: A Co-Designed Person-Centered Model of Care in Stroke Rehabilitation

1. Person-Centered Physiotherapy in Stroke: A Scoping Review Protocol. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/2EBH4.

   Maryam Khaleqi-Sohi, Elizabeth Thibault, Mary Egan, Jennifer O'Neil