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Founded in 1987, CHEPA is a world-class interdisciplinary health research centre that is home to the largest concentration of health economists and health policy analysts in Canada.
CHEPA researchers bring together a rich set of intellectual resources to tackle complex health and health care problems from a variety of perspectives such as economics, political science, ethics and sociology.
It has earned international and national recognition for its significant contributions to research, education and policy, and is known for its work in the fields of knowledge transfer, economic evaluation, health technology assessment, health human resources, and needs-based and primary care funding models.
New health human resources research chair at McMaster joins CHEPA's faculty
The newly-appointed Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources at McMaster University has joined the faculty of CHEPA.
Arthur Sweetman, who took up the chair and a position as a professor in the Department of Economics on July 1, previously was director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University.
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CHEPA partners with International Network on Health Policy and Reform
Researchers at CHEPA have a new forum in which to showcase their ideas, ongoing work and published materials in the fields of health policy and health economics research.
Under the leadership of faculty member Michel Grignon, CHEPA has entered into a partnership as the expert group for Canada of the International Network on Health Policy and Reform, a 20-country project initiated and sponsored by Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation, and associated with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.
The network is comprised of international experts who contribute regularly to the Health Policy Monitor website, with accounts of health policy reforms in their countries. The non-academic reports focus on a reform or discussion about an issue or planned reform in a given country, including some background on the policy under discussion.
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