Sinneave Family Foundation

With Sinneave’s support, we aim at informing policy design by building disability data analytics capacity in partnership with government ministries through three types of analyses:

  1. Linked administrative data

  2. Policy and program analysis

  3. Survey and interview data

This is done by focussing on two research topics:

  1. Experiences accessing services and programs: data from persons with disabilities and their families living in Alberta

    a) Survey administered across Canada; Alberta specific data presented

    b) Follow-up qualitative interviews with parents of children with disabilities.

  2. Transitions from child-to-adult services: cross-ministry administrative data on the years following the transition from child and adult supports and policy considerations on the provision of Alberta Disability Assistance

The findings are aimed to be mobilized to government and community partners.


Carpenter Medical Corporation (CMC) Studentships:

CMC has been supporting 2 MPP students annually since 2019 to complete a novel project or analysis on a health-related topic.

CMC provides clinical Internal Medicine services in the Greater Toronto Area in addition to consultant services in Health Quality, Health Economics and Health Policy. Dr. Travis Carpenter serves as director and is a faculty member with the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Carpenter has worked with hospitals, hospital networks and Health Quality Ontario to advance clinical quality improvement initiatives to enhance the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of patient services in Ontario.

Links to CMC supported publications:


DiPo is moreover involved as co-investigator or partner in the following projects:

  • Leveraging the impact of diversity in neurodevelopmental disability by integrating machine learning in personalized. The general objective of this project is to show that the use of machine learning (ML) approach(es) will allow to combine clinical diagnosis and personalized medicine, to further treat and improve health outcomes of patients with neurodevelopmental disability (NDD), which is known to affect about 13% of the population.

  • Measure what matters: Identifying Key Indicators to Align Health and Social Policy and Service Delivery with Child Health and Wellbeing, led by Brent Hagel, Professor, Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine; Director, Healthy Children, Families and communities Program, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary.