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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.
CHEPA awards two doctoral fellowships for 2009/10
Two students with international educational and work experience have been awarded CHEPA Doctoral Fellowships for the 2009-10 academic year.
Kaelan Moat, who is currently working towards his Master of Science degree in International Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Yaw Owusu, who has a Master of Science degree in Environmental Sciences, Public Policy Administration from the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, will both join McMaster’s Health Policy PhD program in September.
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CNA report offers recommendations to prevent expected nursing shortage
The Canadian Nurses Association is predicting Canada's health system will be short 60,000 registered nurses over the next 15 years, unless urgent action is taken.
A report commissioned by the group, on which CHEPA member Stephen Birch was a co-author, recommends instituting a series of policy measures that could help alleviate the predicted shortage.
Tested Solutions for Eliminating Canada’s Registered Nurses Shortage, the third in a series of reports on the nursing shortage, presents a picture of the supply of and requirement for RNs in direct/clinical care (excluding nurse practitioners) in Canada over 15 years. It shows how several policy options were tested to determine their ability to address the projected shortfall.
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