Speaker: Annalijn Conklin, University of BC This talk will review the evidence on nature Rx, including a recent scoping review in the context of surgery, and present new findings from a patient survey on nature experiences, preferences and barriers to nature Rx following colorectal surgery. Dr Annalijn Conklin is an associate professor (tenure) at UBC […]
Speakers: Michelle Amri and Jan Filart, UBC School of Population and Public Health Equity is formally embedded as a core objective of Canadian public policy, yet there is limited empirical insight into how federal civil servants actually conceptualize and operationalize equity in their day-to-day work. Because equity is a contested and multi-dimensional concept, variation in […]
Speaker: Arman Rahmim, University of BC and BC Cancer This talk will focus on the emerging paradigm of digital twinning of cancer patients and application of virtual therapies for identification of optimal therapies, moving towards personalization of treatments. The talk will particularly focus on the exciting paradigm of theranostics, and also discuss the role of AI […]
Insights from feminist thought for health and welfare interventions conducted across lines of culture, privilege, and power Speaker: Dr Hamsa Rajan, Research Associate, School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford Building on the six years she has lived in both eastern and western China, Dr Rajan uses ethnographic and qualitative methods to investigate […]
Speaker: Craig Mitton, UBC School of Population and Public Health This presentation examines decision making for expensive drugs for rare diseases (EDRDs) in BC, situating the EDRD process within the broader challenge of health system priority setting under conditions of scarcity. Drawing on economic and ethical frameworks, the presentation outlines how multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is […]
Why protecting universal access now requires generationally fair revenue reform Speaker: Paul Kershaw, UBC School of Population and Public Health Over the past half century, the share of Canadians aged 65 and over has doubled, from roughly 10 to 20 per cent. Because the typical senior uses approximately four times as much medical care as a […]
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