Daniel R Y Gan, PhD

Excited to share: Colleagues in community health, nursing, social work, urban planning and I are editing a Special Issue on "Dementia and Age-Equitable Planning: Analytics for Partnership" @tandfonline Abstracts due March 2025. Submission details below: docs.google.com/document/d/1wr…

The EU @JPNDeurope has launched a new transnational call focused on health & social care for the moderate to late stages of neurodegenerative diseases. CIHR-IA is proud to partner on this initiative, more details coming to ResearchNet next month! Stay tuned!

Planning Practice and Research (PPR) @PlanningPracti1 Special Issue co-editors: Anthony Kupferschmidt @jarmin_yeh @doctormirza and @IncredibleHulko

Excited to share: Colleagues in community health, nursing, social work, urban planning and I are editing a Special Issue on "Dementia and Age-Equitable Planning: Analytics for Partnership" @tandfonline Abstracts due March 2025. Submission details below: docs.google.com/document/d/1wr…

Loneliness gives unique points of views #neurodiversity #zeitgeist psypost.org/lonely-individ…

This photo is 3 years late but am still glad it happened! Presenting methods and outputs from the CIHR-IA Postdoc on Saturday 3.30pm @CIHR_IA #CEnR

Hear @MOSAICBC @JCCGV staff reflections on "Mutuality Among East Asian Diaspora at a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community in Metro Vancouver" this Friday! #GSA2024 cdmcd.co/4RwBqJ Funded by @SSHRC_CRSH with support from @UnitedWay_BC #AginginPlace @BurnabyPL

@FrogHollowNH Check out Knowledge Mobilization videos: "Creating Digital Stories on Aging Experiences" (Poster 13) on Thursday with @DoctorMirza and the @IncredibleHulko @CityofVancouver @CityofKamloops @PHARR_Centre funded by @HlthResearchBC youtu.be/_L3uqiafq98 #GSA2024 #CEnR #KMb

Methods presentation: "Brain Health in Community: Involving and Collaborating With Communities Yielded Unexpected Innovations" with @FrogHollowNH to follow cdmcd.co/ra5jWW #GSA2024 #CEnR

Very excited to share "Digital Social Prescribing Lite: Addressing Barriers of Preventive Integrated Care through Community Engagement" (Poster 407) with Drs. @AHoverman and @KateMMulligan at #GSA2024 this Saturday!

Do we need more specialist or more generalist skills for the future? Some futurists predict that, in the age of AI, choosing to be a generalist will be a risky career move. Someone with broad, basic competence in multiple domains is likely to be overtaken by an AI language model. However, there is a growing view that generalists will own the future. A generalist has something that language models don’t have: the capacity to learn quickly & see/solve novel problems in new domains. The person who thrives in the future might not be the expert who knows the exact answer to a question (specialist). Rather, it might be the one who knows which questions to ask in the first place (generalist). every.to/chain-of-thoug…. By @danshipper via @FerraroRoberto.

Fantastic start to the Canadian Social Prescribing conference acknowledging Indigenous approaches to wellbeing with Elder Dr. Albert Marshall #CISP

Celebrating the last day of a CIHR postdoctoral fellowship which spanned 3 years with 4 major awards and 10 publications. Thank you @KateMMulligan, @FrogHollowNH and many mentor, co-authors and collaborators on the journey! 💙🧠👫👬

Great read: Lost in Translation: The Social Language Theory of Neurodivergence autietraumageek.medium.com/lost-in-transl…

@ammatziorinis @ashleyruba_phd She explained when asked how she stayed focus: ADHD + interest in research = hyperfocus

@KateMMulligan @CaitlinMuhl The pleasure is ours! #ASPIRE is a wonderful group primed to make waves for better 🏄🏻‍♂️ I'm loving the exchange! 😎

Representing Canada at the Australian Social Prescribing conference -- keynotes from Drs. Kate Mulligan and Seth Kaplan! #EACH24

It was a pleasure to speak at #ISPC2024 yesterday. The main points I shared were: 1. From Needy to Needed: Emphasize the importance of community-led health and well-being by shifting the focus from viewing people who are supported as "needy" to recognizing them as needed. People are essential change agents for community and population health, not passive consumers. Ensuring that individuals feel valued and have meaningful social roles in promoting community health and well-being is crucial to their own well-being as well as their wider communities. People who are active contributors to creating a healthy community are acting in solidarity, not charity. Health beyond healthcare cannot be done to us or for us; we must do the work to place community at the center of healthier futures. Institutions remain necessary but insufficient to properly understand health as a social and political condition, not just a medical one. This is a direct challenge to the current dominant public narratives about health. 2. From Wrong to Strong: Prioritize building on strengths rather than focusing on deficits and labels, but avoid taking strengths for granted. Community development, social justice-based approaches, and an equity lens should be foundational and inform policies and practices throughout, instead of individualized therapy or lifestyle interventions as is currently the case. 3. From Supplanting to Supplementing: It is crucial, therefore, to shift policy and practice from Institutions that supplant community health creation to institutions that supplement it, moving from disabling to enabling states at all levels of government. This redesign is much bigger than Social Prescribing, and those who think Social Prescribing is the panacea are not paying attention. This level of co-becoming involves integrated care, neighborhood pooled budgets, community development, universal basic income, stronger trade union involvement, and a resurgence of the cooperative movements. To achieve all this, we must first relocate authority and equity to citizens proportionate to those who are experiencing structural inequality, racism, and economic poverty. As Isaac Prilleltensky has pointed out, "there can be no wellness without fairness." 4. From Charity/therapy to Solidarity: The bigger picture here calls us to set our sights beyond short-term relief action towards changing the social order that has led us up to this point. We require enabling states that support neighborhood belonging, community cohesion, and community control. That is how we’ll democratically respond to poly-crises and ensure proportionate universalism, as described by @MichaelMarmot Achieving this vision of health beyond healthcare and hospitals towards health and community is about ensuring that those currently defined as having a problem secure the power to redefine the problem from sickness and fragmentation to wellness and integration.

Thank you for your kind words. 🙏 #ISP2024

⏳ NOW JUST 3 WEEKS AWAY! Register: eventleaf.com/each24 We look forward to welcoming you to this unmissable event! Secure your seats NOW. #EACH24 #SocialPrescribing #health #community #connect #Conference #wellbeing #mentalhealth @daniel_gry Dr Candice Oster @Flinders

Does nature-based social prescription improve mental health outcomes? A systematic review and meta-analysis. frontiersin.org/journals/publi…