CHEPA Presentations

A series of four workshops organized by CHEPA member John Lavis helped those working in health systems management and policymaking learn how to make better use of research evidence to improve the province’s health system. Participants increased their awareness about tools and resources available to health system managers and policymakers in order to support their use of research evidence, and enhanced their skills in acquiring, assessing, adapting and applying research evidence. For more details on the workshops, click here.

CHEPA researchers were active at the International Health Economics Association 7th World Congress in Beijing, China in July 2009. Stephen Birch gave three presentations related to the topics of antiretroviral treatments in Africa, breast screening in Australia and economic evaluation of family practice. Doctoral student Jinhu Li presented a paper she co-authored with CHEPA member Paul Contoyannis entitled The evolution of health outcomes from childhood to adolescence. Li also presented a paper entitled Physician response to pay-for-performance: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in Canada. Doctoral student Emmanuel Guindon presented a paper entitled The impact of tobacco prices on smoking onset in Vietnam: Duration analyses of retrospective data.

CHEPA member Lisa Schwartz was co-chair of the 20th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference held in Hamilton in June 2009. She also conducted a workshop at the event entitled Case discussion of ethics in conditions of disaster and deprivation: Learning from health workers’ narratives. Mita Giacomini offered a concurrent session at the conference on The questionable ethics and science of experimental trials for evaluating ‘black box’ health ad policy interventions.

Several CHEPA faculty took part in the 2009 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Health Services Policy Research, in Calgary in May. Jeremiah Hurley and Michel Grignon organized a session entitled Equity in the Utilization of Health Care in Canada. Hurley also presented his paper Geographic equity in hospital utilization:  Canadian evidence using a concentration-index approach. CHEPA doctoral students Emannuel Guindon and Michael Wilson presented their work for which they received the IHSPR Rising Star Awards. Health Policy PhD students Andrea Smith and Kathy Li also presented at the conference.

Julia Abelson gave a presentation on involving the public in health system decision-making, entitled Supporting Community Engagement in Ontario's LHINs, at a symposium for LHIN executives sponsored by the Ontario-based Change Foundation in March 2009.

Julia Abelson was part of a plenary session entitled Changing Models, Changing Practices: Building bridges from research to implementation, at the 2008 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research in Hull, Que., in May 2008.

Jeremiah Hurley presented a paper on 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 2008. To view the presentation, click here.

For information on earlier presentations, click here.