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The Health System Impact Fellowship provides highly-qualified individuals with a doctorate degree in health services and policy research, or related fields, a unique opportunity to apply their research and analytic talents to critical challenges in health system and related organizations…
Seniors probably aren’t the first demographic that comes to mind when you think of virtual reality. But a few groups in Canada believe a dose of VR might just make the perfect medicine. Researchers in different parts of the country…
This article, originally appeared in the October 2016 issue of Skulematters magazine, included: Optimizing surgical schedules (Dionne Aleman) Walk this way (Jan Andrysek) Optimizing ambulance distribution and routing (Timothy Chan, Justin Boutilier) Reducing the risks of cycling (Marianne Hatzopoulou, Sabreena…
News Item – U of T MasterCard Foundation scholar Sylvia Mwangi hopes to improve health care in Kenya
When it comes to demonstrating the transformative power of higher education, it’s hard to find a better example than Sylvia Mwangi. The amount of personal growth the industrial engineering student has experienced while at U of T may be as…
Finding priorities for health research and development Today’s investments in health R&D are poorly aligned with global public health needs. As little as 1% of all funding for health R&D is allocated to diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, although…
A bold healthcare initiative by the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI) is revolutionizing the relationship between healthcare providers, patients and family members – by including families as partners in care. What started as a grassroots movement launched under the…
The Centre for Healthcare Engineering is please to announce that Christopher Sun is the inaugural recipient of the PPEF-6T6 Industrial Engineering 50th Anniversary Award in Healthcare Engineering (please see Award Announcement) for his outstanding work during his graduate studies. Christopher…
On 16-17 January 2017 the OECD will host a meeting for Ministers of Health and a High-Level Policy Forum on people-centred care, at OECD Headquarters in Paris. Putting People at the Centre: The Future of Health On the 16th January…
January is Alzheimer Awareness Month, which is a good time to take inventory of the state of Alzheimer’s care in our communities. It is also a formal opportunity to focus on caring for the caregivers — the people who look…
Canada wasted $15 billion over the last five years on highly priced prescription drugs, in part because of questionable drug company sales tactics, according to exclusive research and a hidden camera investigation by the fifth estate. The research conducted for the…
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