PhD candidate Peter Sheffield receives first place in the Health Workforce Student Presentation Competition at the 2026 CAHSPR Conference
Categories: Awards & Recognition, PhD students, Students
PhD candidate Peter Sheffield received first place in the 2026 Health Workforce Student Presentation Competition, which was part of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) Conference held in Ottawa in May.
Sheffield’s winning presentation, “Retaining the Team-Based Primary Care Workforce in Canada: Consensus Recommendations from A Delphi Study,” shared insights from one of his PhD dissertation studies.
A recipient of a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Sheffield’s research interests include interdisciplinary primary healthcare, contextual interventions for healthcare provider well-being, organizational/systemic facilitators of practitioner retention, patient-partnered research, and mixed/multi-methods designs. He is also particularly passionate about furthering social work’s contribution to interprofessional education in the health sciences and is a frequent invited speaker at both academic institutions and community primary care organizations.
Sheffield is an alumnus of TUTOR-PHC (Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research – Primary Healthcare), the only interdisciplinary primary care research training program in Canada. He held an inaugural trainee fellowship with the Patient Expertise in Research Collaboration (PERC) at McMaster University from 2023-2024.
Sheffield received a Canada Postdoctoral Research Award from SSHRC, to begin under the supervision of Dr. Agnes Grudniewicz at the University of Ottawa, following completion of his PhD.