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35th Annual CHSPR Health Policy Conference: Value Judgements: Focusing on Patients’ Health and Health Care Outcomes

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The movement to increase value from health care is gaining momentum and related initiatives are flourishing. For many, value from health care means measuring patients’ health relative to the costs incurred to achieve their outcomes. However, this concept over-simplifies the complex processes of generating or maintaining health. Focusing on patients’ health and health care outcomes […]

Population Effects of Implementing Multi-gene Panel Sequencing for Advanced Cancers in BC: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis

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

Speaker: Deirdre Weymann, BC Cancer Register to attend in-person in SPPH (room B104) or virtually (via Zoom). In September 2016, British Columbia became the first Canadian province to publicly reimburse multi-gene panel sequencing for informing advanced cancer care. The impacts of Oncopanel sequencing on population health and health system expenditures remain unknown. We draw on […]

Critical Data Studies Meets Data Governance

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

Please register for in-person or virtual attendance. Dr Tracey Lauriault, Associate Professor of Critical Media and Big Data at the Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication, will speak in-person. This lecture will introduce the field of critical data studies (CDS) and will argue that data governance as a practice ought to be informed by […]

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Critical Data Studies Meets Data Governance

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

The UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics are pleased to co-sponsor a lecture by Dr. Tracey Lauriault, Associate Professor of Critical Media and Big Data at Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication. The lecture will be in-person and virtual attendance is supported. The […]

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Film Screening | Falling Through the Cracks: Greg’s Story

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

Falling Through the Cracks: Greg’s Story is a short film on Greg Price’s journey through the healthcare system. The film gives a glimpse of who Greg was and focuses on the events of his healthcare journey that ended in his unexpected and tragic death. In spite of the sadness of Greg’s Story, the message of the film […]

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Finding Meaning in the Margins: Survey Marginalia and Thinking Outside the Box in Health Services Research

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

Speaker: Jeffrey Morgan, UBC Register to attend this seminar in-person (SPPH) or virtually (via Zoom). Jeffrey Morgan will present in-person. Survey “marginalia” are the spontaneous notes, doodles, comments, and written addenda offered by participants in the margins of a survey. They exist outside the bounds of what was asked, and transgress the conventions of a […]

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Uses in Health Care Services

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

Speaker: Sian Tsuei The health care industry has seen increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies over the last several years. The dizzying pace of development is generating a vast range of implications for health care service providers and policymakers. To facilitate productive dialogue and research on AI-related health services and policies implementation and research, […]