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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…
A doctor who was praised for her calm defence of universal healthcare when she spoke before a powerful group of U.S. politicians in 2014 has written a new book outlining her vision for improving the quality of Canada’s health care…
MIE would like to thank John Peri (IndE 8T4) and his family for their generous donation of $250,000, which will go towards supporting MIE industrial engineering students: Industrial Engineering Design Award (Endowed $50,000) The Peri Family Industrial Engineering Design Award…
The government has limited growth in the health sector over the past few years to about two per cent, largely through freezing hospitals’ base operating funding and cutting payments to doctors. But for the government to keep growth in its…
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