Winter 2017
Friday, January 20: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Michael Wolfson, University of Ottawa
Title: Contingent Inequalities: An Exploration of Health Inequalities in the US and Canada
Friday, January 27: 1 PM – 2 PM at Toronto General Hospital on the 10th Floor, rm 240
Speaker: Fiona Clement, University of Calgary
Title: Canadian Publicly Funded Prescription Drug Plans, Expenditures and an Overview of Patient Impacts
Friday, February 3: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Kaveh Katebian, Beaconsfield Consulting
Title: Practical Application of Simulation Models to Support Policy Decision Making
Friday, February 10: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speakers: Hawre Jalal, University of Pittsburgh and Fernando Alarid Escudero, University of Minnesota
Title: Simplifying Value of Information (VOI) Analysis with a Gaussian Approximation Approach
Friday, February 17: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Nancy Reichman, University of Toronto
Title: Three Papers Addressing Linkages between Socioeconomic Status and Health
Friday, February 24: 1 PM – 2 PM at Toronto General Hospital on the 10th Floor, rm 240
Speaker: Kathryn Brohman, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University
Topic: Hello Data? Meet Results. Making Effective Use of Remote Patient Monitoring.
Friday, March 3: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Stephen Peckham, University of Kent
Topic: Primary Care Doctors as Purchasers: Exploring Marketization and Privatization in the English NHS 1990 – 2016
Friday, March 17: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Mayvis Rebeira, University of Toronto
Title: The Effect of Income Inequality on Mortality in Advanced Economies
Friday, March 24: 1 PM – 2 PM at Toronto General Hospital on the 10th Floor, rm 240
Speaker: Heather Ross, Toronto General Research Institute
Topic: The Promise and Pitfalls of Patient Monitoring
Friday, March 31: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Lady Bolongaita, University of Toronto
Topic: The impact of changing nursing education requirements on wage structure
Friday, April 7: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Beate Sander, University of Toronto
Topic: The role of data-driven simulation in the economic evaluation of population health interventions. The example of West Nile virus.
Friday, April 21: 1 PM – 2 PM at Toronto General Hospital on the 10th Floor, rm 240
Speaker: Nick Bansback, CHÉOS Program Head
Topic: Value based decision-making from different perspectives: Case studies from rheumatoid arthritis
Friday, April 28: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: David Rudoler, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Topic: Psychiatric Care Supply in Ontario: Highlights from the Health Outcomes and Performance Evaluation (HOPE) Team
Friday, May 5: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Tony Culyer, University of York & University of Toronto
Title: Let’s get the threshold right and stop the killing
Fall 2016
Friday, September 16: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Mehdi Ammi, Carleton University
Title: Should I stay or should I go? Explaining general practitioners’ decision to quit new primary care teams in Quebec
Friday, September 23: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Adrian Rohit Dass, University of Toronto
Title: Introduction to R
Friday, September 30: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Jill Furzer, University of Toronto
Title: Introduction to STATA® Part 1
Friday, October 7: 10 AM – 12 PM, CAMH-CCHE Lecture
Speaker: Rowena Jacobs, University of York
Title: Quality of care and outcomes for people with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) in England: What can we learn from financial incentives and policy initiatives?
Friday, October 14: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Paul Grootendorst, University of Toronto
Title: The Evolution of the Regulated Medical marijuana Market in Canada
Friday, October 21: 1 PM – 2 PM at Toronto General Hospital on the 10th Floor, rm 240
Speaker: Andrea Gershon, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Title: Studies on the Ontario COPD Population Network
Friday, October 28: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Kate Choi, University of Western Ontario
Title: Children of mixed racial backgrounds and their birth outcomes
Friday, November 4: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Peter Austin, ICES
Title: An introduction to propensity score methods for estimating the effects of treatments using observational data
Friday, November 11: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Peter Coyte, University of Toronto
Title: Caregiving and Labour Market Activities: The theoretical basis for caregiving threshold effects
Friday, November 18: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Deborah Marshall, University of Calgary
Title: A Different View: What it Looks Like When you Listen to Patients
Friday, November 25: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Wendy Ungar, University of Toronto
Title: Does the apple fall far from tree? Economic evaluation of genomic testing in child health