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What's New

CHEPA member Phil DeCicca has been awarded the 2008 John Charles Polanyi Prize in economics from the Ontario government. He was one of five recipients of the $20,000 awards that are granted to outstanding researchers in the early stages of their careers.

CHEPA is accepting applications for a Fellowship in Health Policy funded through CHEPA’s collaborative research program with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The 12-24-month Fellowship offers a health policy researcher the opportunity to lead and participate in interdisciplinary research and educational activities, working collaboratively with CHEPA’s health ministry partners. For details, click here.

Nominations are now being accepted for the CHEPA Doctoral Fellowships for 2009-10. Deadline to apply is March 2. For details, click here.

Fadi El-Jardali, assistant professor at the American University of Beirut, will be a visiting scholar at CHEPA from February to May this year. El-Jardali has a PhD in Public Policy from Carleton University. Before taking up his current position in 2005, he spent several years in Canada, working for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health Canada and the Health Council of Canada. He also held a part-time faculty position at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include the analysis of policy-making processes in low and middle income countries.

CHEPA member John Lavis has been leading a series of one-day workshops to help those working in the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care learn how to find and use research evidence efficiently, in order to improve the province’s health system. About 100 ministry staff have attended the workshops. The last of the four workshops was held this month. For more details, click here.

Spotlight on research

CHEPA Director Julia Abelson will lead a study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research that will examine innovative methods to engage citizens in public policy and health system decision-making processes. Entitled Evaluating the Impacts of Public Engagement in Health Systems, the three-year study seeks to understand whether, how and under what conditions innovative public engagement practice occurs and can be sustained. The study represents one of the first attempts to examine the longitudinal and system-wide effects of public engagement in Canada.

Presentations

John Lavis gave two presentations at the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health in Bamako, Mali, in November: 1) Taking stock of developments in linking research to policy in and about health systems, and 2) Knowledge-translation platforms: Helping policymakers and researchers achieve greater impacts on health and health equity.
He also gave presentations on tools to bring research evidence and stakeholders’ perspectives into policy development, to the Interministerial Social Policy Research Group of the Ontario government, and to the Portfolio Policy Director General Committee of the Canadian government.

Looking Ahead

CHEPA Seminars:

Kathryn McDade, Director General of the Health Care Policy Directorate at Health Canada, will present a seminar entitled Research Evidence in the Federal Policy Process: A Wait Times Case Study, on Jan. 21 at 12:30 p.m. in HSC-1J7.

Fadi El-Jardali, assistant professor at the American University of Beirut, will present the CHEPA seminar on Feb. 25.

John Cawley, an associate professor at the Cornell University College of Human Ecology in Ithaca, N.Y., will discuss the economics of obesity at the CHEPA seminar on March 11.

Willard Manning, professor in the Department of Health Studies at the University of Chicago, will be the speaker at the CHEPA seminar on April 8.

The 20th annual conference of the Canadian Bioethics Society will be held in Hamilton, ON, June 11 to 14. The theme of the conference is Just Evidence. The opening keynote lecture will be delivered by Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians. CHEPA member Lisa Schwartz is co-chair of the event with Elisabeth Gedge, chair of the Department of Philosophy at McMaster University. For details, click here.

The XIIIth International Symposium in Medical Geography is being held at McMaster University July 12 to 17. The scientific program is titled Global Health: Changing Environments, Changing Health. CHEPA member John Eyles is on the organizing committee for the event. Deadline to submit research papers is Feb. 15. For more details, click here.

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