CCHE Seminar Series: 2022-2023

Fall Seminars

*Location note: HS=Health Sciences Building, 155 College St., Toronto ON. All seminars will be provided in-person and streamed live via Zoom. For Zoom registration information, please contact us at: cche@utoronto.ca*

Friday, September 16: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Adrian Rohit Dass (University of Toronto)
Student Workshop: Introduction to R Part 1

Friday, September 23: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Adrian Rohit Dass (University of Toronto)
Student Workshop: Introduction to STATA® Part 1

Friday, September 30: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Alex Proshin (University of Toronto)
Title: Racial Disparities in Access to and Use of Antidepressants for Major Depressive Disorder, Evidence From the USA, 2009-2018

Friday, October 7: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Nazmi Sari (University of Saskatchewan)
Title: Availability of Sports and Exercise Facilities and Their Impact on Participation in Physical Activity: An Empirical Analysis of Canadian Data

Friday, October 14: No seminar this week (IHPME reading week)

Friday, October 21: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Laura Derksen (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Title: Privacy at What Cost? Saving the Lives of HIV Patients With Electronic Medical Records (joint work with Anita M. McGahan and Leandro Pongeluppe)

Friday, October 28: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Boriana Miloucheva (Princeton & University of Toronto)
Title: Drug Copayments, Child Outcomes, and Intra-family Spillovers (joint with Jakub Červený (Institute for Health Care Analyses, Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic)

Friday, November 4: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Nibene Somé (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health & University of Toronto)
Title: Avoidable Hospitalizations and Primary Care Payment Models in Ontario, Canada: A Multivalued Treatment Effects Analysis

Friday, November 11: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Elaine Guo (University of Toronto)
Title: Social Media and Teenage Mental Health: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Friday, November 18: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Myla Moretti (Hospital for Sick Children & University of Toronto)
Title: The Challenges of Cost-Effectiveness Analyses in a Pediatric Setting: Little People, Little Increments

Friday, November 25: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Nicole Mittman (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health)
Title: Health Technology Assessment in Canada

Friday, December 2: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Alex Hoagland (University of Toronto)
Title: What’s in a Bill? A Model of Imperfect Moral Hazard in Healthcare

Winter Seminars

Friday, January 13: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Adrian Rohit Dass (University of Toronto)
Student Workshop: Introduction to R Part 2

Friday, January 20: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Adrian Rohit Dass (University of Toronto)
Student Workshop: Introduction to STATA® Part 2

Friday, January 27: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Daniel Eisenkraft Klein (University of Toronto)
Title: How do Policymakers and Modelers Consider the Social Determinants of Health in COVID-19 Models?

Friday, February 3: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Josette Rosine Aniwuvi Gbeto (Université Laval)
Title: Peer Effect in Adolescent’s Mental Health: The Role of Peer Support

Friday, February 10: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Brian Chan (KITE – Toronto Rehab Institute and University of Toronto)
Title: Economic Evaluation of Rehabilitation Technologies: What are the Unique Challenges We Face?

Friday, February 17: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Kevin Donald Willison (Lakehead University)
Title: Envisioning the Potential of Fuzzy Logic Within Health Economics and Beyond

Friday, February 24: No seminar this week (IHPME reading week)

Friday, March 3: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
**Cancelled and postponed**

Friday, March 10: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Wendy Ungar (Hospital for Sick Children & University of Toronto)
Title: Economic Evaluation in Child Health: Playing Outside of the Sandbox

Friday, March 17: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Jacob Smith (University of Toronto)
Title: Considering Risk Aversion in Economic Evaluation: A Rank Dependent Approach

Friday, March 24: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Peter Cram (University of Texas Medical Branch)
Title: Using patient-level population-representative data for international health systems comparisons: findings and lessons for Canadian healthcare 

Friday, March 31: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Tara Cowling (Medlior)
Title: RWE 101: What is Real World Evidence and how can it be used to improve patient care in Canada?

Friday, April 7: No seminar this week (Easter Friday)

Friday, April 14: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Nathan Yang (Cornell)
Title: Does Premium Version Adoption in mHealth Improve User Engagement and Health-Related Outcomes?

Friday, April 21: 10 AM – 12 PM, HS Rm. 108 & Zoom
Speaker: Petros Pechlivanoglou (Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto)
Title: TBD