The Moose Jaw Vitality Project is backed by a team of researchers, educators, and community builders working together to make advanced health science accessible to every resident.
The information people need to make good decisions about their health is almost never available to them in a useful way. Getting a full picture of your biochemistry, brain function, cardiac health, and physical performance requires navigating a fragmented system of referrals, specialists, and disconnected data. Most people never get that picture at all.
At the community level, there's almost no infrastructure to track whether health programs and policies are actually making people healthier. The Moose Jaw Vitality Project was created to solve both problems at once: give individuals complete, comprehensible health data for free, and build the research infrastructure to measure community health outcomes over time.
Moose Jaw is the right place because of its size, its sense of community, and because this is where our founder grew up. This isn't a pilot program imported from somewhere else. It's a project built here, for the people who live here.
Every assessment generates information that's yours. We believe people make better decisions when they have better data about their own health.
This project exists to serve Moose Jaw. The centres are local. The staff are local. The research benefits the community before anyone else.
Every claim is grounded in peer-reviewed research. Every assessment follows established protocols. The observational study is independently reviewed.
Dr. Goodenowe grew up in Moose Jaw and has spent over thirty years in biochemistry and neuroscience research. His work on plasmalogens and their role in cellular health has been published in peer-reviewed journals and led to the development of health assessment platforms used by health professionals around the world. The Moose Jaw Vitality Project is his most personal initiative: bringing that research home to the community where it started.
The Vitality Project is a collaboration between organizations that each contribute a specific capability.
Provides self-directed health programs, education, and community support to Moose Jaw residents at no cost.
Conducts the long-term observational research study under independent IRB oversight.
The wellness programs and the research study are separate enrollments with separate governance. Participation in one does not require participation in the other.
The Moose Jaw Vitality Project isn't a service being offered to this city. It's a project being built with it. As it grows, it will create local employment, bring advanced health infrastructure to the community, and position Moose Jaw as a model for community-driven health research in Canada.
But none of that matters without the people who show up, get assessed, and help build something that's never been done before.
As the Community Health Research Centre at 1400 Lakeview nears completion, new positions will open across research, education, and community support. Check back here for opportunities, or visit the Restorative Health Centre for details.
Join the Moose Jaw Vitality Project and help build something that's never been done before.
Find Out How to JoinNo cost. No catch. No obligation.
Just access to the health information you deserve, in the community you call home.
