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What's New

Jean-Eric Tarride has received a Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The award allows him to further his research program on the development of new methods for health technology assessment and their applications.

CHEPA is hosting three international visiting scholars this fall. Gwyn Bevan from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the U.K., Julie McDonald from the University of New South Wales Research Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity in Sydney, Australia, and Mark Schlesinger from Yale’s School of Public Health will each offer a seminar, and enrich their individual research programs during their time in Hamilton.

Mita Giacomini has successfully led efforts to establish a new Health Policy PhD program at McMaster to be launched in September 2008. The program will begin accepting applications in February 2008. For inquiries, please e-mail hpphd@mcmaster.ca.

CHEPA has named two new co-editors for its Working Papers series. Alina Gildiner will review Health Policy submissions, and Christopher Longo will review submissions related to Health Economics.

Conferences

Paul Contoyannis presented at the Canadian Health Economics Study Group conference in Ottawa in May.

Mita Giacomini and Lisa Schwartz presented at the Canadian Bioethics Society Conference in May.

Several CHEPA members, including Director Julia Abelson, Associate Director Jerry Hurley, Ivy Bourgeault and Mita Giacomini, made presentations at the June conference of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research. CHEPA emeritus member Brian Hutchison, and primary care associate Gillian Mulvale, also presented.

CHEPA members Stephen Birch, Paul Contoyannis, Phil DeCicca, Amiram Gafni and Jeremiah Hurley presented at the 6th World Congress of the International Health Economics Association held in Copenhagen in July.

Amiram Gafni was a keynote speaker at the 7th International Symposium on Health Economics in Sao Paulo, Brazil in August.

John Lavis gave a number of presentations to international audiences, including at the National Institute of Clinical Studies, in Melbourne, Australia; the National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra, Australia; the Regional East African Community Health - Policy (REACH-Policy), Arusha, Tanzania; the Pan-American Health Organization, Washington, DC.

Spotlight on Research

Lisa Schwartz has received a three-year grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Ethics Office, for a project entitled “Ethics in Conditions of Disaster and Deprivation: Learning from health workers' narratives.” The project will involve collecting and analysing the views of health care professionals and students who have provided humanitarian aid, offering care under extremely difficult circumstances. The objective is to create a framework for ethical analysis and help workers with ethical challenges they face in the field.

John Lavis is the principal investigator on a CIHR-funded project called Pushing Useful Science to Healthcare Managers and Policymakers (PUSH-MaP), which is designed to make existing health research literature that is relevant to policy decisions easier to acquire, assess and use.

Jeremiah Hurley is the co-investigator on a project entitled Improved Methodological Approaches for Need-based Resource Allocation. Funded by CIHR and led by researchers at Dalhousie University, the research will examine and offer solutions to existing limitations in formulas used to calculate health care funding models based on regional and individual needs.

Looking Ahead

Mark Schlesinger, a professor in the Division of Health Policy and Administration at the Yale School of Public Health, will give a CHEPA seminar on Nov. 1, 2007 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., in MDCL 3022.

CHEPA’s Health Policy Program is hosting an invitational symposium entitled Field of Dreams: Strengthening Health Policy Scholarship in Canada, at the Royal Botanical Gardens on Nov. 2, 2007.

CHEPA Monthly Seminars:

Gwyn Bevan, a professor at the London School of Economics, will give the monthly seminar on Nov. 7, 12:30-1:30 p.m., in HSC 3N5A. He teaches health policy analysis and conducts research in the areas of performance measurement, priority setting, and resource allocation.

Margaret Denton, a professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society and director of gerontological studies at McMaster, will give the December monthly seminar on Dec. 12, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. in HSC 3N5A.

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

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