Foundational Research Program

This level targets factors that affect the entire population and examines the role of environmental determinants of cardiometabolic diseases related to how we design and build our neighbourhoods. Interventions targeting the macro level may include municipal and regional policies and urban planning to optimize the built environment and improve access to nutritious foods, physical activity, and housing to create healthy environments.

This level focuses on groups disproportionally affected by diabetes and addresses how to promote healthy living and behaviours through specific sociocultural co-designed interventions. These interventions may involve strengthening and enhancing community action and mobilization by designing and implementing prevention programs across various settings and contexts to raise awareness and promote healthy living and behaviours.

This level addresses individuals with or at risk of developing diabetes and related cardiometabolic diseases within the healthcare system and examines how access and quality of cardiometabolic disease healthcare can impact potential health outcomes and quality of life. Interventions may focus on patients and families, healthcare providers and administrators to improve cardiometabolic disease care by making health services more coordinated, effective, accessible, and equitable.