Jerry Maniate
MD, M.Ed, EMBA, FRCPC, FACP, CCPE, CPC(HC)
Investigator
Executive Director and Founder
Equity in Health Systems Lab
Associate Professor
Departments of Medicine and Innovation in Medical Education, University of Ottawa
Vice Chair of Member Support
uOttawa Department of Medicine
About:
Dr. Jerry Maniate is a clinician-educator at The Ottawa Hospital, an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Vice Chair of Member Support and an investigator at the Bruyère Health Research Institute, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and the uOttawa Music and Health Research Institute. After his medical school and residency training at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Maniate completed his Master of Education at the University of Toronto and joint fellowship at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education and the Centre for Faculty Development. He then took on the role of a community-based clinician educator and served as the inaugural Chief of the Department of Medical Education, Research & Scholarship at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto before taking on the role of Vice President of Education for The Ottawa Hospital in 2017. His role expanded to the inaugural Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion and Education where he led the establishment of the organization’s Diversity & Inclusion Council and its initial EDI Strategic Plan.
In 2021, Dr. Maniate founded the Equity in Health Systems Lab (EqHS), an international transdisciplinary team of researchers, health care professionals, educators, policymakers, learners, and patients who are seeking to make an impact on our community and health system with the work they are engaged with through a unique approach. His academic work and that of the EqHS Lab has been focused on understanding and addressing inequities in our health systems through collaborative partnerships using a scholarly lens.
He is actively engaged and recognized nationally and internationally for furthering the dialogue on these important topics, creating practical and accessible tools and resources that support change from the individual-level (micro) to the team/organization level (meso), to the system level (macro) by building relationships and trust.
"Our goal: rebuilding trust and strengthening the health system. We are bringing together a diversity of people and perspectives to create social change in our health system by creating space for critical conversations without borders and beyond traditional structures.”
Research Interests:
Health equity, accessibility, health system, higher/medical education, leadership.
Select Publications:
Health Inequality Monitoring Network. (2026). WHO launches global network of institutes to strengthen capacity for health inequality monitoring. International Journal for Equity in Health.
Do V, Harvey K, Maniate JM. (2026). A Conceptual Framework for Health-Promoting Leadership in Healthcare Inspired by the Okanagan Charter. Leadership in Health Services.
Do V, Chan M-K, Maniate JM, Sonnenberg LK. (2026). Educators as Stewards of Relational Competence: Trust and Belonging as Missing Competencies in Health Professions Education. Medical Science Educator.
Lalande S, Beselt LJ, Maniate JM. (2025) Evaluating the Impact of a Health Equity Continuing Professional Development Initiative: A Program Evaluation of the Critical Dialogues for Action Series. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions.
Lipinski M, Sonnenberg LK, Harvey K, Maniate JM, Do V. (2025). Wicked Problems, Collective Solutions: Centering Wellbeing via NGT. Medical Education.
Ahn E, Sebok-Syer SS, Maniate JM, Endres K, Cheung WJ. (2025). Beyond Individualism and Independence: Exploring Collectivism and Interdependence as Paradigms of Healthcare and Health Professions Education. Perspectives on Medical Education.
Lefkowitz A, Maniate JM, Kuper A. (2025). Disagreeing respectfully: Embracing complexity facilitates civil discourse. Canadian Medical Education Journal.
Wiljer D, Paton M, Jeyakumar T, Do V, Maniate JM, Tavares W, Schneeweiss S. (2025). Serendipitous Pathways and Elusive Definitions: Leadership in Continuing Professional Development. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions.
Barber C, Beselt J, Alcantara J, Jaffer B, Bute-Seaton K, Chong W, Carver T, MacNeil H, Salami B, Sonnenberg L, Rangel C, LeBlanc C, Osei-Tutu K, Bouka A, Radhakrishnan A, Maniate JM. (2024). Advancing Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility in Primary Care: The Development of an Integrated Educational Experience Model. Healthcare Management Forum.
Paton M, Do V, Jeyakumar T, Maniate JM, Tavares W, Schneeweiss S, Wiljer D. (2024). Elements and Definitions of Continuing Professional Development Leadership: A Scoping Review. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions.
Barnabe C, Osei-Tutu K, Maniate JM, Razack S, Wong BM, Thoma B, Duchesne N. (2023). Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in CanMEDS 2025. Canadian Medical Education Journal.
Osei-Tutu K, Duchesne N, Barnabe C, Richardson L, Razack S, Thoma B, Maniate JM. (2023). Anti-Racism in CanMEDS 2025. Canadian Medical Education Journal.
Do V, Maniate JM, Sultan N, Sonnenberg L. (2023). The 4C's of influence framework: fostering leadership development through character, competence, connection and culture. Leadership in Health Services.
Contact:
jmaniate@toh.ca
Learn more at www.eqhslab.com