Michael Kwag, University of Manitoba

Research

Access To Healthcare Aging And Health Care Navigation Interventions Chronic Health And Wellbeing Cultural Safety Health And Social Care Indigenous Two-Spirit And Lgbqia+Mixed-Methods Research

Latest funding

National Study on Chronic Health, Aging, Healthcare Access, and Wholistic Wellbeing among 2S/LGBTQIA+ Older Adults in Canada
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
$700,000
Making Community Count - Creating and Implementing a Community-Led Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and more (2S/LGBTQIA+) Health Data Governance Framework
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
$700,000

All 2 grants and awards

National Study on Chronic Health, Aging, Healthcare Access, and Wholistic Wellbeing among 2S/LGBTQIA+ Older Adults in Canada

Principal investigatorCIHR2026Op. Gr. Adv. 2S_LGBTQI+ Heal. Thr. Res. - 2S/LGBTQI+ Older Persons Health

Principal investigators: Souleymanov, Roustam; Bonertz, Lane T; Dame, Jessy M; Geoffroy, Marie; Klassen, Benjamin J; Kwag, Michael; McCrady, Keith; McLeod, Albert; Moore, Joey; Sinno, Jad; Gahagan, Jacqueline C; Giwa, Sulaimon; Kia, Hannah; Mian, Noreen; Pang, Celeste; Pino, Fritz Luther

Keywords: Access To Healthcare; Aging And Health; Care Navigation Interventions; Chronic Health And Wellbeing; Cultural Safety; Health And Social Care; Indigenous Two-Spirit And Lgbqia+; Mixed-Methods Research; Older 2slgbtqia+ Adults; Wholistic Wellbeing

$700,000

Making Community Count - Creating and Implementing a Community-Led Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and more (2S/LGBTQIA+) Health Data Governance Framework

Principal investigatorCIHR2026Op. Gr. Adv. 2S_LGBTQI+ Heal. Thr. Res. - Advancing 2S/LGBTQI+ Health

Principal investigators: Nickel, Nathan C; Fowler-Woods, Amanda D; Freier, Amy J; Kwag, Michael; Leeies, Murdoch A; Ratana, Paul; Shaw, Souradet Y; Veldhorst, Georgina

Keywords: 2s/Lgbtqia+; 2slgbtqi+; Community-Based Research; Data Governance Implementation; Data Sovereignty; Gender, Sex And Sexual Orientation Data; Gsso Data; Institutional Ethnography; Patient-Oriented Research; Public Health

$700,000

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: Access To Healthcare Dear Professor Kwag, 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 access to healthcare 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 "National Study on Chronic Health, Aging, Healthcare Access, and Wholistic Wellbeing among 2S/LGBTQIA+ Older Adults in Canada" (2026), 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]