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What does it take to build better healthcare systems that truly work for every child in Canada? SPARK Conversations is Children's Healthcare Canada's podcast series bringing together the clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and families who are shaping the future of children's healthcare to explore what's working, what's possible, and what comes next. This is where the conversation starts.
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Seen from the Start: The case for early identification and care
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Building Bridges: Navigating the transition from child to adult care
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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The Long View: Building Lifetime Pathways for Kids of All Abilities
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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SPARK Conversations: A New Chapter Begins
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Right-Sizing Reflections: The evidence, the urgency and the opportunity
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Right-sizing Children’s Healthcare: Connecting care & building capacity beyond the hospital walls
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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'Tis the season - Flu, RSV, and COVID: A heads-up from down under
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Right-Sizing Children’s Healthcare: The Critical Role of Community-Based Developmental Care
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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The Power of Pediatric Palliative Care: Equity, Access, and Hope
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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A Right-Sized Model that Works: Learning from Ontario’s pediatric cancer care system
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Equity-Driven Systems: Right-Sizing Healthcare for Every Child
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Family partnership and lived experience: A core component for right-sizing child health systems
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Federal Election 45 Results: Impact on children, their health, and healthcare
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May 26, 2025 |
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Big Hearts, Huge Impact: Philanthropy and the Future of Kids’ Healthcare
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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The Role of Community Hospitals in Right-Sizing Children’s Healthcare
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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How Ronald McDonald House Charities is Helping to Right Size Healthcare for Kids
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Homecare: A key element of right-sized health systems
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Right-sizing healthcare systems for kids: Primary care access
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Collective action and Advocacy: Coalitions and right-sizing children's healthcare
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Care Without Borders: Strategies for Delivering Quality Healthcare to Kids in Rural and Remote Communities
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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SPARK Conversations - S5E5 - Dr. Christine Chambers
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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The Pediatric Workforce: Right-sizing the HHR system for kids
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Right-Sizing Health Systems: The systems-focused Children’s Hospital
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Beyond Bandaids: Retaining Nurses in Pediatric Healthcare
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Beyond Bandaids: Collective Action to Right-Size Children's Healthcare Systems
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May 06, 2024 |
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A Pediatric Student-Led Clinic: One model to help right-size children’s healthcare
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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SPARK: Conversations LIVE | Creating Equitable and Inclusive Healthcare Systems for Children and Families
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Navigating the Child and Youth Mental Health Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Integrating Pediatric Social Determinants of Health for Children in Canada
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Children’s pain management: A new standard to improve care
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Health System Leadership: Leading Beyond Complexities to Effectively Transform Health Systems
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May 15, 2023 |
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Child Health in the Media: A Snapshot of the Media Representation of Child Health
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Child Health Research: Thinking out of the Typical Health Care System Box
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Spirit Bears Guide to Reconciliation: Utilizing Jordan’s Principle and the Spirit Bear Plan to achieve culturally based equity for First Nations Children
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Health Systems Transformation: Learning from Experts on Ways to Inform System Change
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Children's healthcare in the community
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Healing the Healthcare System: staff burnout, honest leadership, and collaboration
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Getting the Facts Straight: Tackling mis/disinformation through patient-provider relationships
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Missed Opportunities Can Last a Lifetime: The State of Infant and Early Mental Health in Canada
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May 30, 2022 |
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COVID’s Impact on Routine Immunizations
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Child Health and Wellness Research: A Priority to Transform Children’s Healthcare
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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More than just a Tick Box: Building Back Better through Family Engagement
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Getting the Message Across: Clear Communications during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Climate Change: A Child Health Issue Now and Into the Future
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Learning from Lived Experience: Family Partnerships for Pain and Child Health Research
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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COVID, Equity, and Child Health: Vaccines, Passports, and Impacts
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Integration of and Innovation in Child Health Systems: The Promise and Perils of Joined-Up Governance
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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The COVID-19 Vaccine and Canada's Children and Youth
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Children’s Hospitals for the Future: Creating Conditions for Healthy Kids.
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Raising Hope from the Ground Up: Building children's healthcare in Canada
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Learning System in Child Health: Connecting ‘What We Do’ with ‘What We Know’
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Pharmacare Fit for Kids
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Inspiring Healthy Futures: #WeCANforKids
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Saying Yes to Less: Resource Stewardship in Children’s Healthcare
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Jan 11, 2021 |