Research & Evaluation
AHF supports community-based research, impact reporting, and public education to better understand unmet needs, healthcare access barriers, liver health awareness, and program accountability.
Projects are listed by current status. Full citations, author lists, and downloadable reports will be added when abstracts, reports, or manuscripts are accepted, published, or publicly available.
Research pipeline
Current and planned AHF-supported research projects.
High Acceptability of Community-Based Liver Disease Screening Among People Experiencing Homelessness and Housing Insecurity
Roshawn Jamasi, BCom; George Tadros, MD; Yeabsera Ephrem; Kathan Pathak; AJ Tran; Henry Nguyen, MD
Alberta Homeless Foundation × Liver Health Connect
Community-based abstract examining liver disease history, healthcare access barriers, and acceptability of low-barrier liver disease screening among people experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.
Preliminary findings from this abstract are expected to be expanded into a full manuscript for future submission to a relevant peer-reviewed journal.
Publication Number: 2143
Presentation: To be presented at AASLD The Liver Meeting on November 6, 2026, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
Full citation and abstract link will be added when publicly available.
A Low-Cost Geospatial Tracking Workflow for Hygiene and Health Supply Distribution Among People Experiencing Homelessness in Calgary: Formative Evaluation
Roshawn Jamasi, BCom; Yeabsera Ephrem; Kathan D. Pathak; Jackie Hagstrom; Foram Rana; Zoe Godin, BSc; Stephen E. Congly, MD, MSc; Brittany Kraus, PhD
Lead: Alberta Homeless Foundation
Manuscript describing AHF's low-cost geospatial tracking workflow for hygiene and health supply distribution among people experiencing homelessness in Calgary, including KIT-ID tracking, distribution documentation, privacy-preserving reporting, and formative evaluation of implementation.
Award-Winning Conference Presentation
Low-Cost Geospatial Tracking Workflow for Hygiene and Health Supply Distribution Among People Experiencing Homelessness
Presented by Muhammed Rizwan Ahmad, an undergraduate researcher with the Alberta Homeless Foundation, at the 2026 University of Calgary Undergraduate Summer Student Symposium on August 17, 2026.
The presentation received the Third Place Poster Award. The symposium was hosted by W21C, the Centre for Health Informatics, and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health.
Poster authors: Kathan D. Pathak; Yeabsera Ephrem; Jackie Hagstrom; Zoe Godin; Foram Rana; Muhammed Rizwan Ahmad; Stephen E. Congly; Roshawn Jamasi.
Research supervision: The project was senior-authored and supervised by Roshawn Jamasi, who prepared and coached the undergraduate presenter in communicating and defending the research.
The full manuscript remains in preparation. Citation details and any publicly available research outputs will be added as they become available.
Barriers to Screening and Care for Liver Diseases Among People Experiencing Homelessness
Lead: Alberta Homeless Foundation
Planned scoping review examining barriers to liver disease screening, linkage to care, treatment access, and follow-up among people experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity. This project will help contextualize AHF's community-based liver health and healthcare access research.
Project scope, protocol, and author list are in development.