NACIC: The North American Centre for Integrated Care
NACIC is a platform to improve the capacity of individuals and organizations in advancing integrated care focused on creating and sharing knowledge about integrated care throughout North America for broader and more sustainable impact on population health.
Connecting collective communities across Canada and North America working to address the fragmentation in our health and social care system; NACIC enables decision-makers, researchers, clinicians, administrators, patients and community to share knowledge, build capabilities and have evidence for integrated care, including from scientific literature, cross-national and global comparisons, and internal benchmarking readily available to enable improvements to policy and help support decisions
VISION
Population Health and Wellbeing
MISSION
NACIC's goal is to synthesize existing knowledge and engage with a broad audience around the evidence they need to achieve integrated care as an integral role in achieving population health and wellbeing.
OBJECTIVES
- Supporting the advancement of knowledge and adoption of integrated care practice throughout the region using principles of co-design
- Celebrating the work currently being undertaken throughout North America
- Allowing for collaborative learning between academics, researchers, managers, clinicians, policymakers and users of services
- Aligning and linking efforts from across those that are working towards common goals and/or purposes for greater collective impact (i.e. University of Toronto, DLSPH, IFIC)
- Providing learning opportunities through (but not limited to) knowledge exchanges, research, blogs, op-eds, learning sessions, and discussion forums.
- Facilitating international knowledge exchange and collaboration
- Engaging with audiences around evidence they need, synthesizing existing evidence, and translating it so it can be readily accessed
- Providing coaching and mentoring opportunities to build capacity and capabilities
NACIC: Part of the International Integrated Care Movement
Emerging from the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Canada Hub, since 2019, NACIC/IFIC Canada has focused on creating the relationships needed to advance population health on a local, national and global scale; growing the North American integrated care community; and generating research and practice guidance on implementing integrated care. Since 2024, the NACIC is a formal entity (Extra Departmental Unit) at the University of Toronto. It supports academic knowledge creation and knowledge translation activities such as regular webinars, virtual event series, master classes, and North American conferences on integrated care.
Connected with the international community through the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), NACIC provides global leadership in co-designing with patients, caregivers, and citizens and strategic expertise in evaluation, collective impact, transformation, and social change.