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 as the backbone to the study, it combined interviews with im/migrant community members and linked health and immigrations data to explore access to health care […]

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 | 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 | Patient Experiences as a Critical Component of Learning Health Systems: How Patient Experiences Can Drive Change

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

Speaker: Kerry Kuluski, Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners; and University of Toronto   In this seminar, Kerry Kuluski will explore how patient experiences can drive health system improvements by drawing on the latest evidence. She will also share a case example to demonstrate how patient reported experiences can be operationalized in a hospital setting […]

CHSPR Seminar | Trends in the Complexity of Hospitalized Patients in British Columbia

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

Speakers: Hiten Naik and John Staples In this seminar, Drs Naik and Staples will discuss their research examining trends in patient complexity over time and implications for healthcare providers and policymakers. Hiten Naik is a general internal medicine physician and aspiring clinician scientist. He is a fellow in the UBC Clinician Investigator Program and is completing […]

Better data. Better decisions. Healthier Canadians.

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

Speaker: Brent Diverty, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) This seminar will introduce the important and rich information available at CIHI, share progress being made in Canada towards better health data, and discuss working with CIHI as a researcher or partner. CIHI maintains 30 critical databases that contribute, along with other data suppliers such as Statistics […]