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What's New

CHEPA has reorganized and expanded its membership as it adapts and responds to the increasing prominence of research and academic scholarship in health economics and health policy analysis. Changes include a reorganization of the centre membership into distinctive programs in Health Economics (HE) and Health Policy Analysis (HPA) and an increase in faculty membership. For more details on the re-organization, click here.

Julia Abelson was appointed Director of CHEPA, effective Sept. 1, 2006. She will oversee the Health Policy Analysis area. (more)

Jerry Hurley, formerly acting director, has been appointed to the newly created role of Associate Director. He will oversee the Health Economics area. 

CHEPA has added six new members, bringing the total number of members to 21, spanning six departments and three Faculties at McMaster University. Profiles on all members can be found here.

Fiona Miller has received a five-year CIHR New Investigator Award. She has also been appointed to the Senator William McMaster chair in Health Policy for Innovative Technologies in McMaster’s newly created Department of Health, Aging and Society.

CHEPA emeritus member George Torrance was inducted into McMaster’s Faculty of Health Sciences Community of Distinction. (more)

John Lavis has been renewed for a further five-year term as the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Exchange. (more)  

Student Awards

Applications are now being accepted for the CHEPA Studentship Award and the CHEPA Doctoral Fellowship. Deadline to apply is March 8, 2007. (more) 

Spotlight on Current Research

Ivy Bourgeault is leading a CIHR-funded project examining policy addressing the migration of physicians, nurses and midwives in and out of Canada. The information will be compared to policies in similar countries such as the U.S., the United Kingdom and Australia.

Mita Giacomini is principal investigator on a two-year project examining health technology assessment research and its role in policy-making. Health Technology Assessment:  Paradigms, Trends, and Policy Implications is funded by CIHR.

Michel Grignon is conducting a study of inequities in health care utilization and the potential impact of health policy in Canada. CHEPA members Jerry Hurley, Alina Gildiner and Martin Hering are also involved in the CIHR-funded project.

Paul Contoyannis is investigating how various circumstances of childhood impact on adult health and economic outcomes. The work is funded by SSHRC.

Fiona Miller is examining the roles and responsibilities of some of the key players involved in the discovery, development and use of emerging biotechnologies in health. Joining her on the CIHR-funded study are CHEPA members Mita Giacomini, Jean-Eric Tarride and Christopher Longo. 

Looking Ahead

CHEPA seminar: 'Embodied trust' meets 'scientific evidence': Exploring the dynamics in health care systems, presented by Ellen Kuhlmann, Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen, Germany, on Feb. 21, 2007, at 12:30 p.m. in HSC 3E-26.

Julia Abelson is a keynote speaker at the CHSPR Health Policy Conference in Vancouver on Feb. 22, 2007. (more)
CHEPA seminar: The Monthly Seminar in March will feature Ross Upshur, Director, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Primary Care Research. It will be held on March 21, 2007 at 12:30 p.m. in HSC 3E-26.

John Lavis is chairing a panel at the CHSRF Ten Year Anniversary conference in Montreal on March 22, 2007.

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

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