Awards & Recognition

Dr. Turin Chowdhury has been recognized for his exceptional contributions to community empowerment through research, teaching/mentoring, and community capacity building with the prestigious VOICE Community Impact Award. This esteemed award highlights Dr. Chowdhury's unwavering dedication to conducting research in collaboration with community members, fostering meaningful engagement, and nurturing a sense of empowerment among immigrant communities.

Dr. Chowdhury has made significant strides in creating opportunities for interested community members to actively contribute to his work and gain hands-on research skills. Through his innovative initiatives such as "Community Scholar and Citizen Researcher" and "Refugee and Immigrant Self Empowerment," he has spearheaded community organizing efforts that prioritize the empowerment of immigrant communities in research endeavors. Dr. Chowdhury's approach emphasizes a community-centered methodology, ensuring that his research is not conducted in isolation but in partnership with the very individuals whose lives it aims to impact positively. By establishing strong collaborative ties and fostering a two-way learning process, Dr. Chowdhury has paved the way for true community engagement and active participation in research.

His efforts serve as an inspiration to others in the field and demonstrate the profound impact that research, education, and community collaboration can have on improving the lives of individuals and communities.

South Health Campus Teaching Centre wins ACFP Patient’s Medical Home – Outstanding Family Practice Award 2022

This award goes to a clinic or family practice that demonstrates outstanding leadership in the areas of patient and community care while exhibiting excellence in the application of the principles of the Patient’s Medical Home. The South Health team is recognized for meeting the needs of their patient community and working collaboratively with allied health providers, other specialists, and other health care providers. 
 

Congratulations to the South Health Campus family medicine team, who also recently celebrated the clinic’s 10^th anniversary!

Dr. Turin Chowdhury, Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences is the 2022 recipient of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Mid-Career Researcher Award. This international award recognizes outstanding research accomplishments and significant recognition of an individual in primary care research.

Turin is a leading researcher in work that is embedded in communities, collaborative, and employs community engagement and partnerships. He is focused on doing research involving immigrants and refugee communities on issues of equitable access to primary care and  promoting health literacy through community organizing. His program of research is designed for the community. It takes place in the community. And it is carried out with members of the community.

"It is an honour to be recognized by NAPCRG with this award. The recognition that research can be inclusive and is made better with the involvement of communities and the groups who are affected by it is inspiring. I believe that this award will lead to more work of this kind and finding new ways to engage and empower the community members to participate in the research process, and sharing of results.”

Dr. Chowdhury has served as the Department of Family Medicine’s Research Director from 2014 to 2021. Since 2022, he has been the department’s Research Continuing Professional Development director with a focus to develop research culture and capacity at the community family physician level. In doing so, he has created and delivered 20 national and international workshops focused on the development of research skills. He has nearly 250 peer-reviewed publications and is the first author or senior author on over half of those. Many of the publications had student and mentee involvement, reflective of his commitment to training and mentoring of next generations of researchers.

Dr. Chowdhury has received research funding for more than 40 projects as a principal or co-investigator from national (Canadian Institute of Health Research [CIHR], Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [SSHRC], Heart and Stroke Foundation, and Public Health Agency of Canada [PHAC]), the federal government (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada [IRCC]), and international funding bodies. He is also a founding and organizing member of the Newcomer Research Network at the University of Calgary, which focuses to bring the academics, learners, service provider organizations, policy makers, and grassroots communities to advance knowledge and intercultural practices with immigrants / racialized communities.

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Dr. Chowdhury is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences. He is also a member of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health.