UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research

Speaker: Daniel Buchman, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Palliative psychiatry is an emerging subfield of mental health care that focuses on improving quality of life and relieving suffering in people living with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI), rather than aiming solely for symptom remission or cure. Palliative psychiatry applies the principles of palliative […]

Speaker: Alex Lukey, PhD Candidate, School of Population and Public Health Growing confidence in both the origins of ovarian cancer and the safety and effectiveness of salpingectomy as a preventive strategy has led to increased adoption of opportunistic salpingectomy in clinical practice. Although current guidelines only recommend salpingectomy opportunistically, the greatest reduction in mortality and […]

Speaker: Meena Rafiq, University College London The UK has established nationwide primary care electronic health record datasets that are linked to hospital and cancer registry data. These linked datasets have been used to generate influential research that underpin primary care guidelines and clinical practice in the UK. In this talk Dr Meena Rafiq will showcase how […]

A proposed multi-methods research program Speaker: Kirsten Marchand, University of BC and Foundry BC Addressing the rising rates and burden of mental health and substance use disorders among youth (typically ages 12-24) is an urgent priority. Mental and substance use disorders typically emerge and peak during this developmental period and require timely, accessible, and appropriate […]

Speaker: Dean Regier, University of BC Health policy and economics have long focused on balancing efficiency, innovation, and access. As Canada increasingly seeks to trial and scale domestic innovations to address emergent health needs and strengthen the economy, deteriorating economic conditions and competing policy priorities will test the system’s capacity for policy-supported innovation. Life-cycle learning […]

Speaker: Veena Sriram, University of BC Countries around the world are experiencing health workforce crises, characterized by shortages, burnout and attrition of health workers. Protests by health workers have also gained visibility, exemplified by widespread attention to these actions during COVID-19. Dr Sriram will present findings from research on trends in the use of protest […]