Liam O'Neil, University of Calgary

Research

Health Services Research Shared Decision Making Environmental Risk Factors First Nations People Indigenous Health Research Inflammatory Arthritis Metis People Pre-Clinical Disease Detection

Latest funding

RAAISE: Rapid Access to Autoimmune Testing in Indigenous Communities for SystEmic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$1,438,200
IIA-PATH (Indigenous Inflammatory Arthritis Prevention And Treatment Approaches for Health Equity)
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$2,000,000
Indigenous Inflammatory Arthritis Prevention And Treatment approaches for Health equity (IIA-PATH)
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$20,000

All 3 grants and awards

RAAISE: Rapid Access to Autoimmune Testing in Indigenous Communities for SystEmic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases

Co-investigatorCIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Choi, May Y; Mosher, Dianne P

Keywords: Autoantibodies; Autoimmune Diagnostics; Barriers To Care; Biomarkers; Delibrative Dialogue; Dried Blood Spots; Epidemiology; Indigenous Health; Saliva; Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases

$1,438,200

IIA-PATH (Indigenous Inflammatory Arthritis Prevention And Treatment Approaches for Health Equity)

Principal investigatorCIHR2024Team Gr.: Embr. Diversity to Achieve Precision/Health Equity-Infection/Immunity

Principal investigators: Barnabe, Cheryl C; Fox, Terri-Lynn; Montesanti, Stephanie R; O'Neil, Liam J; Roach, Pamela Marie

Keywords: Health Services Research; Implementation Research; Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; Models Of Care; Prevention Trial; Psoriatic Arthritis; Rheumatoid Arthritis; Screening; Shared Decision Making; Spondyloarthritis

$2,000,000

Indigenous Inflammatory Arthritis Prevention And Treatment approaches for Health equity (IIA-PATH)

Principal investigatorCIHR2024Team Gr.: Emb. Diversity to Achieve Precision/Health Eq-Infection & Immunity-LOI

Principal investigators: Barnabe, Cheryl C; Fox, Terri-Lynn; Montesanti, Stephanie R; O'Neil, Liam J; Roach, Pamela Marie

Keywords: Environmental Risk Factors; First Nations People; Health Services Research; Indigenous Health Research; Inflammatory Arthritis; Metis People; Pre-Clinical Disease Detection; Proteomics; Shared Decision Making; Wellness

$20,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Health Services Research Dear Professor O'Neil, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on health services research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "IIA-PATH (Indigenous Inflammatory Arthritis Prevention And Treatment Approaches for Health Equity)" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]