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Gayle Halas

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Assistant ProfessorDr. Gerald Niznick College of DentistryUniversity of Manitoba

Gayle Halas

Assistant Professor

Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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15 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (5 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.

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Primary Care Network Quintuple Aim Learning Health System Practice Based Research And Learning Network Primary Care Data Primary Health Care Caregiver

Latest papers

Developing a minimum dataset for a national patient registry on Long COVID in Canada: a Delphi consensus-based study
BMJ Open · 2025
Informing family physician payment reform in Canada: protocol for a cross-provincial, multimethod study.
BMJ open · 2025
Experiences of Frontline Managers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Organizational Resilience
Healthcare · 2024

All 34 publications

Latest funding

Prime Care Reimagined: Impact, Mobilization & Engagement Rapid Response
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$3,000,000
Homeless, Recovering and `Back to the Street': Identifying the Support Network
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$72,154
Informing family physician payment reform: a cross-provincial, multi-method study
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$792,330

All 13 grants and awards

34 publications.

Developing a minimum dataset for a national patient registry on Long COVID in Canada: a Delphi consensus-based study

Mazurik K, Amah A, Dumitrescu DI, Ejalonibu H, Chavda B, Kemp D, Frederick DE, Mclean C, Décary S, Gruneir A

BMJ Open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-111474

Informing family physician payment reform in Canada: protocol for a cross-provincial, multimethod study.

Hedden L, Grudniewicz A, Katz A, Lavergne MR, McDonald T, Rudoler D, Austin N, Halas G, Spencer S, Thelen R, Mathews M, McCracken R, McGrail K, Shiplett H, Strumpf EC

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-103894 PMID: 40541439

Experiences of Frontline Managers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Organizational Resilience

Udod S, Baxter P, Gagnon S, Halas G, Raja S

Healthcare202428 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/healthcare12030407 PMID: W4391542115

A Phenomenological Inquiry of the Shift to Virtual Care Delivery: Insights from Front-Line Primary Care Providers.

Halas G, Baldwin A, LaBine L, MacKay K, Singer A, Katz A

Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2024First author

DOI: 10.3390/healthcare12080861 PMID: 38667623

Patients' and caregivers' experiences of virtual care in a primary care setting during the COVID-19 pandemic: A patient-oriented research study.

Halas G, Baldwin A, Mackay K, Cardenas E, LaBine L, Cherrett P, Abraham L, Fogarty V, Singer A, Katz A, Kirby S

Digital health2024First author

DOI: 10.1177/20552076241232949 PMID: 38410792

Exploring experiential learning within interprofessional practice education initiatives for pre-licensure healthcare students: a scoping review.

Nagel DA, Penner JL, Halas G, Philip MT, Cooke CA

BMC medical education2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05114-w PMID: 38350938

Communication between healthcare providers and communicatively-vulnerable patients with associated health outcomes: A scoping review of knowledge syntheses.

Jenstad LM, Howe T, Breau G, Abel J, Colozzo P, Halas G, Mason G, Rieger C, Simon L, Strachan S

Patient education and counseling2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2023.108040 PMID: 37951163

Reaching out to Patients with Long COVID to Better Understand Their Life Experiences and How to Support Their Recovery: A Patient-Oriented Knowledge Sharing Session.

Pommer A, Halas G, Mendis R, Campbell C, Semenko B, Stadnyk B, Thalman L, Mair S, Sun Y, Johnston N, Sanchez-Ramirez DC

International journal of environmental research and public health2024

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph21020187 PMID: 38397678

A randomized pragmatic feasibility trial to promote student perspective-taking on client physical activity level: a collaborative project.

Hoplock LB, Lobchuk MM, Strachan SM, Halas G, Olfert C, Webber S, Parsons JL

Pilot and feasibility studies2024

DOI: 10.1186/s40814-024-01547-8 PMID: 39342378

Strategies to Improve Emergency Transitions From Long-Term Care Facilities: A Scoping Review.

Tate K, Cummings G, Jacobsen F, Halas G, Van den Bergh G, Devkota R, Shrestha S, Doupe M

The Gerontologist2024

DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnae036 PMID: 38661440

Prime Care Reimagined: Impact, Mobilization & Engagement Rapid Response

Principal investigatorCIHR2025PRIME Rapid Response - A CIHR-Healthcare Excellence Canada Partnership

Principal investigators: Wong, Sabrina T; Andreas, Brenda J; Hayes, Anne; Loftsgard, Kent C; Prevost, Karina; Barber, David; Bhattacharyya, Onil; Doucet, Shelley A; Fairman, Kimberly D; Gruneir, Andrea; Halas, Gayle; Hall, Amanda M; Hudon, Catherine; Johnston, Sharon E; Lavergne, Miriam (Ruth) R; Montelpare, William J; Muhajarine, Nazeem; Ramsden, Vivian R

Keywords: Network; Primary Care; Quintuple Aim

$3,000,000

Homeless, Recovering and `Back to the Street': Identifying the Support Network

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Halas, Gayle

Keywords: Support System; Access to resources; Network Analysis; Vulnerable; Homelessness; Recovery; Peer support; Community-based

$72,154

Informing family physician payment reform: a cross-provincial, multi-method study

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Hedden, Lindsay K; Katz, Alan; Lavergne, Miriam (Ruth) R; McDonald, James T; Rudoler, David

Keywords: Access; Physician Remuneration; Policy Evaluation; Primary Care

$792,330

Advancing Health System Leadership Capacity for Psychological Health and Organizational Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant - PA: Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research

Principal investigators: Udod, Sonia; Baxter, Pamela E

Keywords: Covid-19; Healthcare Leader; Leadership; Nurse; Organization; Pandemic; Psychological Health; Resilience

$450,000

Primary Care Teams Capacity Estimator (CapEs): Synthesizing evidence and developing the CapEs simulation software to support Canadian primary care policy makers and healthcare planners better reason about primary care team capacity in a time of crisis.

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Cat Gr.: Policy Research for HST - IHSPR - Health Care Policy Res./Systems Res.

Principal investigators: Price, Morgan Thomas M; Patterson, Ted

Keywords: Delphi; Primary Care Workforce Capacity Estimation; Simulation; System Dynamics

$148,380

Long COVID Web: Pan-Canadian Post-COVID Condition Research Network

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Operating Grant: Canadian Post COVID-19 Condition Research Network

Principal investigators: Cheung, Angela M; Goulding, Susie E; Graves, Donna Lorraine; Archambault, Patrick; Awadalla, Philip; Bakal, Jeffrey A; Bhéreur, Anne; Brotto, Lori Anne; Busse, Jason W; Cameron, Jill I; Churchill, Katie; Crawley, Angela M; Décary, Simon; Durand, Madeleine; Falcone, Emilia L; Fowler, Robert A; Gommerman, Jennifer L; Graham, Kathryn E; Graham, Simon J; Groot, Gary; Gross, Douglas P; Guyatt, Gordon H; Halas, Gayle; Ho, Chester; Hohl, Corinne M; Holroyd, Brian R; Janjua, Naveed Z; Johnson, Pauline; Juando Prats, Clara; Kashuba, Sherri; Katz, Alan; Kho, Michelle E; Lam, Grace Y; Lamontagne, Francois; Langlois, Marc-Andre; Lavis, John N; Law, Susan K; LeBlanc, Annie; Levin, Adeera; Liu-Ambrose, Teresa Y; Liu, Peter P; Lix, Lisa M; Mandhane, Piush; Mann, Balraj; McGrail, Kimberlyn M; McNagny, Kelly M; Miciak, Maxi A; Mishra, Sharmistha; Muhajarine, Nazeem; Mukherjee, Manali; Mushquash, Christopher J; Nacul, Luis; O'Brien, Kelly K; Osgood, Nathaniel D; Papathanasoglou, Elisavet; Penninger, Josef; Piche, Alain; Pinto, Andrew D; Quinn, Kieran L; Rafferty, Ellen; Raj, Satish R; Razak, Fahad; Russell, James A; Sander, Beate H; Sekuler, Allison B; Soares, Claudio D; Tailfeathers, Esther; Tomlinson, George A; Tricco, Andrea C; Valdez, Yanet; Verma, Amol; Vohra, Sunita; Walmsley, Sharon L; Walsh, Jillian; Weeks, Laura C; Williams, Kienan; Wu, Jianhong; Yeung, Rae S

Keywords: Biobanking; Knowledge Translation; Long Covid; Mechanism Of Disease; National Network; Patient Engagement; Patient Registries; Post-Covid Condition; Research Communications; Social Determinants Of Health

$19,999,614

Strategy for Patient Oriented Research Primary Care Network

Principal investigatorCIHR2021SPOR Primary Care Network

Keywords: Learning Health System; Practice Based Research And Learning Network; Primary Care; Primary Care Data; Primary Health Care

$10,000,000

Virtual primary care: a multi-provincial mixed methods study of access, experiences, and outcomes

Principal investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research: Early-Career Investigator

Principal investigators: Hedden, Lindsay K; Grandy, Mathew; Halas, Gayle; Katz, Alan; Marshall, Emily G; McCracken, Rita

Keywords: Administrative Health Data; Interprovincial Comparison; Policy Analysis; Primary Care; Qualitative Methods; Virtual Care

$100,000

Clinician-Patient Communication Interaction and Health Outcomes

Principal investigatorCIHR2018Operating Grant: SPOR PIHCI Network - Knowledge Synthesis Grants

Principal investigators: Jenstad, Lorienne M; Jamoulle, Olivier; Mckenzie, Michael R; Wetzel, Monika; Halas, Gayle; Lussier, Marie-Thérèse

Keywords: Caregiver; Communication; Health; Patient; Physician

$25,000

Improving responsiveness across the continuum of kidney health care in rural and remote Manitoba First Nation communities (I-KHealth)

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Project Grant

Principal investigators: Lavoie, Josée G; Chartrand, Caroline; McLeod, Lorraine L; Zacharias, James M

Keywords: Dialysis; First Nations; Kidney Care; Manitoba; Mixed Method; Prevention; Primary Care; Treatment

$1,575,900

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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Gayle Halas

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Developing a minimum dataset for a national patient registry on Long COVID in Canada: a Delphi consensus-based study

Informing family physician payment reform in Canada: protocol for a cross-provincial, multimethod study.

Experiences of Frontline Managers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Organizational Resilience

A Phenomenological Inquiry of the Shift to Virtual Care Delivery: Insights from Front-Line Primary Care Providers.

Patients' and caregivers' experiences of virtual care in a primary care setting during the COVID-19 pandemic: A patient-oriented research study.

Exploring experiential learning within interprofessional practice education initiatives for pre-licensure healthcare students: a scoping review.

Communication between healthcare providers and communicatively-vulnerable patients with associated health outcomes: A scoping review of knowledge syntheses.

Reaching out to Patients with Long COVID to Better Understand Their Life Experiences and How to Support Their Recovery: A Patient-Oriented Knowledge Sharing Session.

A randomized pragmatic feasibility trial to promote student perspective-taking on client physical activity level: a collaborative project.

Strategies to Improve Emergency Transitions From Long-Term Care Facilities: A Scoping Review.

Homeless, Recovering and `Back to the Street': Identifying the Support Network

Frequent collaborators

Alan Katz

Alexander Singer

Tamara Buchel

Michelle Lobchuk

Tyler Williamson

Malcolm Doupe

Andrea Gruneir

Simon Berthelot

Carolyn Shimmin

Tara Stewart

Thomas Beaudry

Roger Suss

Annette Schultz

Ryan Zarychanski

Sarah Kirby

Alecs Chochinov

Sandra Webber

Glenda Mason

Suzanne Gagnon

Heather Campbell-Enns

Caroline Rieger

Matthias Hoben

Ginetta Salvalaggio

Maria Mathews

Shaelyn Strachan