Throughout the academic year, CHEPA recruits speakers to present seminars on selected health research topics. The series attracts attention from a large audience, which is drawn from the university and wider community interested in health and health care issues. The seminars are usually held monthly, on the third Wednesday. Please visit the CHEPA.org homepage for advance notice of presentations.
If you would like to suggest a speaker or if you require more information, please e-mail Lyn Sauberli sauber@mcmaster.ca.
2009-2010 Speakers
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Andrea Frolic, MA, PhD
Clinical and Organizational Ethicist, Hamilton Health Sciences
Topic: What is 'ethical' health policy analysis? The roles of ethics committees in hospital policy development
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Sanjeev Sridharan, PhD, MS
Director, Evaluation Program, Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
Associate Professor, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Topic: Ten steps to making evaluations matter.
To listen to and view the full presentation click here.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Damien Contandriopoulos, Researcher, School of Public Health Research Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, University of Montreal
Topic: Preliminary findings from a systematic study on organizational level knowledge exchange processes. To listen to and view the full presentation click here.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Lydia Kapiriri, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Aging and Society, McMaster University
Topic: Fairness and Accountability for Reasonableness: Do the views of priority setting decision makers differ across health systems and levels of decision-making? To listen to and view the full presentation click here.
2008-2009 Speakers
Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Chantale Lessard, Visiting PhD in Public Health student from University of Montreal
Topic: Toward a better understanding of the role of health economic evaluation in family practice: philosophical, theoretical and methodological innovations, and empirical findings. To listen to and view the full presentation click here.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Christina Sinding, PhD 
Asssociate Professor, School of Social Work and Department of Health, Aging and Society, McMaster University
Topic: Qualitative Research on Health Care Disparities: Contributions from Institutional Ethnography
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Willard G. Manning, PhD
Professor, Department of Health Studies, The Harris School, University of Chicago
Topic: Estimating Lifetime or Episode-of-Illness Costs
To listen to and view the full presentation click here.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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John Cawley, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, N.Y.
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Topic: The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption: The case of over-the-counter weight loss products
To listen to and view the full presentation click here.
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Fadi El-Jardali, PhD
Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut
Topic: Policy Relevant Research Priorities as identified by Policy-Makers, Researchers and Representatives of the Non-State Sector: The Outcomes and Lessons Learned from a Nine-Country Study in The Middle East and North Africa Region.
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Kathryn McDade
Director General, Health Care Policy Directorate, Health Canada
Topic: Research Evidence in the Federal Policy Process: A Wait Times Case Study
To view the Powerpoint presentation from this seminar, click here.
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Paul Dourgnon
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics
Paris, France
Visiting reseacher at CHEPA, McMaster University
Topic: Did the 2004/06 French Gate keeping reform lead patients to reduce their use of specialist care for economic reasons? An assessment of the reform using self assessed unmet need
To view the slides from this presentation, click here.
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Cynthia Mara
Associate Professor of Health Care Administration and Policy
Penn State University, Harrisburg
Visiting Fulbright Scholar, based in the Department of Health, Aging and Society
McMaster University
Topic: An American in Canada: The journey to a study of long-term care policy and administration in Ontario
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Gavin Andrews
Chair, Department of Health, Aging and Society
McMaster University
Topic: Clinical Geography: Nursing practice and the remaking of institutional space
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