Research and innovation fuel better healthcare for every Albertan. By bringing leading edge ideas into our health system, patients get earlier access to advanced treatments, clinicians translate discoveries into practice, and we continually raise the standard of care.
Our teams help clinicians, innovators, researchers, and partners navigate the path from a problem to idea to impact. We provide the expertise needed to turn evidence into action: rigorous evaluation, advanced analytics and machine intelligence, initiating clinical trials, and assessing new ways to deliver care.
Together, we’re building a health system where breakthrough ideas become real solutions—improving outcomes, enhancing patient experience, and ensuring that every Albertan benefits from continuous, measurable improvement in care.
Health System Access for Research
research.administration@acutecarealberta.ca
For information on research-related access to the health system and research administration matters such as patient recruitment, obtaining operational approval, access to AHS data sources, IT system and purchased service departments.
Health Systems Knowledge and Evaluation
healthsystemsknowledge@acutecarealberta.ca
For full-service research and evaluation support.
Innovation Management
aca.innovation@acutecarealberta.ca
For information and services to assess, develop and implement health innovations.
Office of Partnerships
partnershipsoffice@acutecarealberta.ca
To connect with Senior Scientists, Leads, and Senior Consultants in the areas of implementation science, intellectual property, copyright, grant administration, clinical evidence, and provincial innovation funding processes.
Additional information can also be found at Research & Innovation.
ACA is committed to supporting research and innovation of highest value to Albertans and administers and provides funding under various initiatives. All grants must have a funding agreement between the recipient institution and the funder and comply with relevant institutional policies for governance and accountability. As a not-for-profit, publicly funded agency, institutional overhead and/or indirect costs are not an eligible expense for ACA funded projects.
