Winter 2018
Friday, January 19: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speakers: Sumit Gupta (University of Toronto) and Susan Horton (University of Waterloo)
Title: Cost and cost-effectiveness of paediatric cancer treatment: results from three countries
Friday, January 26: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Meghan McMahon, University of Toronto
Title: CIHR and the CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship Information Seminar
Friday, February 2: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Lusine Abrahamyan, University of Toronto
Title: Survey Methods for Health Services Research: Theory & Application Part II
Friday, February 9: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Julia O’Mahony, University of Toronto
Title: The Impact of Child Health on Parent Health: Parent health-related quality of life after a child is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis
Friday, February 16: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Audrey Laporte, University of Toronto
Title: Taking account of uncertainty in modelling individual health and health behaviours
Friday, February 23: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Eric Latimer, McGill University
Title: Cost-effectiveness evaluation of Housing First programs: Methodological considerations in the At Home/Chez Soi trial
Friday, March 2: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Myra Yazbeck, University of Ottawa
Title: On the importance of the upside-down test in absolute socioeconomic health inequality comparisons
Friday, March 9: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Mohammad Pulok, University of Technology Sydney
Title: Horizontal equity in the Australian healthcare system
Friday, March 16: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Arthur Sweetman, McMaster University
Title: Trends in Successful Resuscitation after Cardiac Arrest under Trending Misclassification Error: Estimating Bounds for Partially Verified Data
Friday, March 23: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Hope Corman, Rider University
Title: Evolution of the Infant Health Production Function
Friday, April 6: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Meghan McMahon, University of Toronto
Title: The Effects of Regulation on Quality: Evidence from the Nursing Home Industry
Friday, April 13: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Anna Zajacova, University of Western Ontario
Title: Anomalies in the education-health gradient: how can they inform our understanding of population health inequalities?
Friday, April 20: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus School of Economics
Title: It runs in the family – influenza vaccination and spillover effects
Friday, April 27: 11 AM – 1 PM
Speaker: Sarah Alderson, University of Leeds
Title: The Campaign to Reduce Opioid Prescribing (CROP) in UK primary care
Fall 2017
Friday, September 28: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Jill Furzer, University of Toronto
Title: Introduction to STATA
Friday, October 6: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Adrian Rohit Dass, University of Toronto
Title: Introduction to R
Friday, October 13: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Petros Pechlivanoglou, The Hospital for Sick Children
Title: Decision Modeling in R
Friday, October 20: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Lusine Abrahamyan, University of Toronto
Title: Survey Methods for Health Services Research: Theory & Application
Friday, October 27: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Dhaval Dave, Bentley University
Title: Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant and Child Health
Friday, November 3: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Colin Preyra, Preyra Solutions Group
Title: An Economist in Research, Policy and Consulting
Friday, November 10: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Rose Anne Devlin, University of Ottawa
Title: Doing good, feeling good: Causal Evidence from Canadian Volunteers
Friday, November 17: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Sara Allin, Canadian Institute for Health Information
Title: Examining inequity in health care using CIHI data – current work and future possibilities
Friday, November 24: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Reza Yousefi Nooraie, University of Toronto
Title: Studying patients’ social networks: The design of three case studies
Friday, December 1: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Esme Fuller-Thomson, University of Toronto
Title: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Leaded Gasoline, and Adult Health
Friday, December 8: 10 AM – 12 PM
Speaker: Terence Cheng, University of Adelaide
Title: Monthly Spending Dynamics of the Elderly Following a Health Shock: Evidence from Singapore