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CHEPA Associate Director Jeremiah Hurley led the successful proposal to establish an Ontario Research Chair in Markets for Health Professionals in the Department of Economics at McMaster University. The chair will be funded by $3 million from the Ontario Research Chairs program, plus additional contributions from McMaster. Applications are now being accepted for the position, which will lead the challenge to produce the research necessary to improve Ontario’s ability to forecast and plan the province’s health human resources needs. For details, click here.

CHEPA member Lisa Schwartz, who holds the Arnold L. Johnson Chair in Health Care Ethics at McMaster University, has been appointed to the Standing Committee on Ethics of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The committee identifies emerging ethical issues of strategic relevance with respect to health and health research, and advises CIHR’s governing council on the ethical, legal and socio-cultural dimensions of the mandate of CIHR. The appointment is for a three-year term.

A CHEPA Doctoral Fellowship has been awarded to Andrea Smith, who will be starting the new Health Policy PhD program at McMaster in September. Smith, who is completing a master’s degree in Community Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University, will be supervised by CHEPA member Mita Giacomini. Smith’s doctoral research will focus on an ethical and philosophical analysis of the connections between methods and interventions in public and population health.

Spotlight on Research

Cathy Charles is a co-investigator on a CIHR-funded project to examine the use and effectiveness of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer in Ontario during the past five years. Investigators will receive $430,000 to study how surgeons make their decisions about whether to use laparoscopic surgery instead of open surgery, and compare patient outcomes during a three-year follow-up period.

Stephen Birch and John Eyles are co-applicants on a project being led by McMaster’s Bruce Newbold that will look into the health care experiences of Hamilton’s refugee community. Journey to Health: An investigation of the social production of health and access to care within Hamilton’s refugee community, will receive $186,000 from CIHR.

John Lavis and Julia Abelson are involved in a $2.5-million research project entitled Community Alliances for Health Research and Knowledge Exchange in Pain, led by McMaster University’s James Henry. The four-year project is funded by CIHR. Henry is the Scientific Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care based at McMaster.

Lisa Schwartz is a co-applicant on a two-year study led by Patricia Caldwell of McMaster’s School of Nursing, to investigate patients’ decisions regarding implantable cardiac defibrillators. The project will receive $90,000 from CIHR.

Conferences

Michel Grignon gave a presentation on the Canadian health care system in Paris in February, at a conference of France's Ministry of Health, entitled Social Policies in the United States of America and Canada, Reforms and Challenges.

Jeremiah Hurley presented a paper entitled Turning Logic and Evidence on Their Heads: Australia’s Subsidy to Private Health Insurance at the 20th Annual Conference of the University of British Columbia Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, in Vancouver in March.

John Lavis gave presentations on research, public policymaking and knowledge translation processes at a workshop of the Medical Research Council in England in February, and for the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in April. He also provided updates and information on EVIPNet (Evidence-Informed Policy Network) at a capacity-building workshop of the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute in Ethiopia in February, and for the Advisory Committee on Health Research for the World Health Organization in Switzerland in March.

Lisa Schwartz gave a presentation on the ongoing research project, Ethics in conditions of disaster and deprivation: learning from health workers' narratives, at the Global Health Education Conference in Sacarmento, CA in April.

Looking Ahead

CHEPA Seminars: Australian research Adam Elshang will present a seminar entitled Disinvestment is the buzz word, but what about it is new or different within EBM and HSPR,? on Monday, July 14 at 12:30 p.m. in room HSC-3N5B. Elshang is a Hanson Fellow with Adelaide Health Technology Assessment, and is a lecturer at the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice at the University of Adelaide.

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

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