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What's New

A successful symposium hosted by CHEPA’s Health Policy Program in November attracted more than 40 participants from across Canada and internationally to discuss the field of health policy in Canada, including its major contributions, its unrealized potential, and the supports needed for it to flourish. The symposium laid the groundwork for an action plan for strengthening Canada’s health policy research capacity and infrastructure.

A website has been launched for the new Health Policy PhD program at McMaster University. The interdisciplinary program that is unique in Canada will accept its first students later this year. To visit the site, click here.

An inventory of systematic reviews of the effects of alternative governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems has been created through a partnership of the Program in Policy Decision-Making and the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre. For details, click here.

Nominations are now being accepted for the CHEPA Doctoral Fellowships for 2008-09. The Studentship Awards have been suspended, in favour of offering two Fellowships. Deadline to apply is March 10, 2008. For details, click here.

Two CHEPA faculty members have decided to move on to other roles. Greg Stoddart, who has been at McMaster for 30 years and was the founding co-ordinator of CHEPA, retired effective Feb. 1. He has made significant contributions to the work of CHEPA during the past 20 years, and will continue to be involved in CHEPA research projects on a limited basis. For more information, click here. Fiona Miller, who had been a CHEPA member since 2001, has left McMaster University to accept a position as associate professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

Spotlight on Research

CHEPA members Ron Goeree and Jean-Eric Tarride were contributors on a research study that was chosen as one of the Top 10 American Heart Association Advances for 2007. The study that looked at the effectiveness of drug-eluting stents in Ontario, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in October.

Conferences

Ivy Bourgeault presented a paper entitled Comparing the Influence of the Global Context on How Internationally Educated Health Workers fit into HHR Planning: Lessons from Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Australia, at the Canadian Institute for Health Information inaugural Health Human Resources Policy Conference in Ottawa in December. Research by Bourgeault on the work culture in hospitals was presented at the European Sociology Association Conference in Glasgow, Scotland in September.

John Lavis presented a paper entitled Evidence-informed policy networks: Learning from innovators at the country level in linking research to action, at a World Health Organization meeting in Geneva, Switzerland in September.

Michel Grignon presented a paper on healthy aging at the 3rd annual symposium of the Population, Work, and Family Policy Research Collaboration, Government of Canada’s Policy Research Initiative, in Ottawa in December.

Looking Ahead

CHEPA Seminars: There will be no seminar in March. The April seminar will feature Paul Grootendorst, an associate professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Economics at McMaster University. The seminar will take place on April 16, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in HSC-3E26.

The inaugural meeting of the Canadian Medical Sociology Association will take place May 13-16, 2008, at McGill University in Montreal. The events are being co-organized by Ivy Bourgeault. For more information visit the conference website at: http://www.makingconnectionsforhealth.ca/ or send an email to: cmsa.rc15.2008@mcgill.ca

The annual conference of the Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research will be held May 26-28, 2008 in Hull, Quebec. Julia Abelson will be part of a plenary panel session entitled Changing Models, Changing Practices: Building bridges from research to implementation. For more details on the conference, click here.

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

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