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What's New

CHEPA has signed a new three-year agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) that will allow it to expand its role in producing policy-relevant research to inform health policymakers and health system managers, and in building Ontario’s applied health research capacity. The new agreement provides increased funding to CHEPA through to the spring of 2011 to increase its knowledge production and exchange capacity as well as its training opportunities for future researchers in health economics and health policy. 

Ivy Bourgeault, who joined CHEPA in 2003, has left McMaster University to accept a position as professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa. During her time at McMaster, Bourgeault held a CIHR New Investigator Award and the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Health Labour Policy.

CHEPA 2007/08 doctoral fellow Morgan Lim has received a 2008 Joseph Arm and Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council valued at $105,000. She will use the funds to pursue her doctoral research on reducing health care wait times in Ontario using discrete event simulations.

The first students have begun studies in McMaster’s new Health Policy PhD program, which is under the direction of CHEPA member Mita Giacomini.

Presentations

Several CHEPA members were active at conferences and workshops during the spring and summer months.

Julia Abelson participated in a plenary panel discussion entitled Changing Models, Changing Practices: Building bridges from research to implementation at the 2008 annual conference of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research in Gatineau, Que., in May. The plenary session explored how changing perspectives on bringing research to policy and practice will influence research, funding, decision-making and service strategies in the future.

John Lavis gave a presentation entitled Taking stock of developments in linking research to policy in and about health systems, at the From Mexico to Mali Workshop: Taking Stock of Achievements, in Nyon, Switzerland, in May.

Glen Randall presented a report on Access to after-hours primary care in Ontario at the 1st International Conference on Healthcare Transformation: Primary Care in Singapore in May.

Alina Gildiner presented a paper entitled Disability Policy in the European Context, at the Canadian Political Science Association conference in June. The paper analyses and compares data from interviews conducted in Sweden and France in early 2007 regarding disability policy changes in those countries, within the context of the European Union.

Christopher Longo presented his paper Global Pharmaceutical Pricing Strategies: Profit implications of price discounting at the Business and Economics Society International meeting in Lugano, Switzerland in July.

Looking Ahead

CHEPA seminars: Gavin Andrews, chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, will present the Monthly CHEPA Seminar on Sept. 17, at 12:30 p.m. in room HSC-4N55A. His topic is Clinical Geography: Nursing practice and the remaking of institutional space. All are welcome to attend.

Labelle Lecture: This annual event will take place on Oct. 1, 3 p.m to 4:30 p.m. in HSC-1A1. The featured speaker is Sebastian Schneeweiss, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. His topic is Reference drug programs: Can we contain costs without harming patients? All are welcome to attend. A reception will follow at Phoenix Lounge, Wentworth House.

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

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