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Improving access to rehabilitation services for people living with complex rehabilitation needs using high-quality telerehabilitation services. Canadian Foundation for Innovation (2025-2030)
Project1: Improving access to rehabilitation services for equity seeking individuals living with an acquired brain injury: a participatory co-design of telerehabilitation services. (2025-2026)
Project 2. The Feasibility, Accessibility and Acceptability of Telerehabilitation for People with Acquired Brain Injury: An Umbrella Review. Protocol registration
Team: Ashlea Stirling, Erika Delucilla, Danika Walsh, Kaelan Elizabeth Jolliffe, Emilie Plourde, Jennifer O’Neil
Exploring new service delivery approaches including how digital health is used in rehabilitation (Since 2023)
Maryam Khaleqi-Sohi PhD thesis (2023-2027): A Person-Centered Model of Care in Stroke Rehabilitation
Team: Maryam Khaleqi-Sohi, Elizabeth Thibault, Mary Egan, Jennifer O'Neil
Project 1: Fall Screening Practices in Emergency Departments : a scoping review protocol. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/VE5WQ
Elizabeth Thibault, PhD thesis (2023-2027): Exploring different approaches to improve Access to fall screening in Canada
Team: Elizabeth Thibault, Maryam Khaleqi-Sohi, Matthieu Boisgontier, Jennifer O'Neil.
Project 1: Person-Centered Physiotherapy in Stroke: A Scoping Review Protocol. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/2EBH4
Access to Physiotherapy and Community-Based Rehabilitation Globally
An international collaborative process to improve access to basic physiotherapy in global heath context (ongoing since 2023)
Project 1: 2023-2024: An international collaborative process to identify research priorities around access of rehabilitation services in Uganda. Funded by CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) Planning and Dissemination Grant, Funding Reference Number/ PCS191027
Team: Jennifer O’Neil PT, PhD, Jacquie van Ierssel PT, PhD, Robert Bwambale, Peter Baluku, Brian Stephen Budgell PhD, NGO Partner CanUgan, Kira Bullock, DPT.
Project 2: Scoping reviews on technology and rehabilitation
The use 3D printing technology in neurorehabilitation for adults: a Scoping Review.
Technology-based interventions used in rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy in LMIC’s: a Scoping Review.
Team: Salena Aggerwal, Zahra Lalani, Jennifer O’Neil
Publications and dissemination
October 2025, Zahra Lalani recently presented her work at the Canadian Association for Global Health conference in Halifax. We are very proud of you! Lalani Z, Aggerwal S, O'Neil J. Technology–Based Rehabilitation Interventions for Children with Cerebral Palsy in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries (LLMICs): A Scoping Review .JMIR Preprints. 01/10/2025:85146. DOI: 10.2196/preprints.85146
Project 3: 2025-2026: Evaluation of an eHealth Assistive Device Provision Training Tool (WHO TAP): A Quasi-Experimental Study.
Team: Rachel Sudhakar and Jennifer O’Neil PT, PhD. Biomedical Sciences Honours Research Project.
Improving access and building capacity in falls prevention programs (ongoing since 2021)
Project 1: L’équité et l’efficacité de deux versions de prestation du programme de télésanté de prévention des chutes Marche vers le Futur. (2023-2025) 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
Project 2: Renforcer les capacités de communautés francophones en situation minoritaire à offrir le programme Marche vers le futur. (2021-2023) 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.
Project 3: Le programme de télésanté de prévention des chutes Marche vers le Futur : Développement d’une communauté de pratique québécoise et franco-canadienne. (2022-2023) Financée par Secrétariat du Québec programme d’appui à la Francophonie Canadiennes Volet 3
O’Neil, J., Dionne, N., Cardinal, D. & Savard, J. (2025). Le programme de télésanté de prévention des chutes Marche vers le Futur : développement et retombées d’une communauté de pratique franco-canadienne. Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society, (25). https://doi.org/10.7202/1121532ar