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CHSPR Seminar | Contemporary Developments in Australian Health Policy

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Stephen Duckett, Honorary Professor, University of Melbourne A new Labor government in Australia, elected in 2022, brought with it a reforming health minister, Mark Butler. Butler started a reform process in primary care – which is ongoing – and also started to modernise aspects of mental health provision. The directions of change will be outlined […]

CHSPR Seminar | Can Causal Inference be Enhanced by Leveraging Machine Learning?

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Insights from Real-world Health Data Analyses Speaker: Ehsan Karim, UBC School of Population and Public Health This talk will explore the distinct methodological approaches for prediction versus causal questions, highlighting the recent excitement around integrating prediction and machine learning tools into causal inference. We will demonstrate their application using real-world databases to address challenges such […]

CHSPR Seminar | Evaluating Inequities in Refugee & Immigrant’s Health Care Access

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Ruth Lavergne, Dalhousie University The Evaluating Inequities in Refugee & Immigrant’s Health Access project aimed to understand the health experiences of immigrants and migrants (im/migrants) in BC. With community engagement […]

CHSPR Seminar | Missed Opportunities and Paths Forward for Health Services and Policy

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Jason Sutherland, Interim Director, UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) In this talk, Jason Sutherland will present his perspectives on the varied and bumpy road to policy-oriented health services research in Canada. Focusing on his past and future policy directions, research activities and student supervision, he will discuss his past missed […]

CHSPR Seminar | Laying the Foundations for Developing a Disease-specific Comorbidity Index A Journey through Challenges, Decisions, and Next Steps

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Hanna Frank, PhD Student, UBC School of Population and Public Health Comorbidity indices are integral to epidemiological research; however, existing tools — such as the widely used Charlson index — were originally developed for general in-hospital populations and focused on predicting outcomes relevant to those settings. These indices may lack relevance for specific disease […]

CHSPR Seminar | The Impact of BC’s Contraception Subsidy: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speakers: Laura Schummers and Michael Law, University of BC BC introduced Canada’s first universal no-cost contraception subsidy in 2023. This study estimates the effect of this subsidy on contraception use and out-of-pocket costs for prescription contraception. We will demonstrate their application using real-world databases to address challenges such as residual confounding and model misspecification. Laura Schummers […]