Symposium to examine health policy scholarship

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Schlesinger_Mark.jpg” caption=”Mark Schlesinger will be one of the speakers at a one-day symposium organized by the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis. Photo courtesy of FHS. “]The current state of health policy scholarship in Canada and ideas for its growth and advancement will be discussed at a one-day symposium organized by the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis.

The Nov. 2 event entitled Field of Dreams: Strengthening Health Policy Scholarship in Canada will bring together more than 40 people from across Canada who are involved in health policy teaching, research and practice.

While health policy is a defined field of scholarship in other countries, supported by many research institutes, funding bodies, publication outlets and training programs, its Canadian counterpart is not as well established.

This inaugural symposium is designed to stimulate discussions about how the field of health policy in Canada is defined, what its major contributions have been as well as its unrealized potential, and what supports it needs to flourish. A major objective of the symposium is to lay the groundwork for an action plan for strengthening Canada's health policy research capacity and infrastructure.

In addition to Canadian leaders in the field, speakers include two noted international health policy researchers. Mark Schlesinger, a leading American researcher from the Yale School of Public Health, and Gwyn Bevan, a professor of Management Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will share their views on health policy scholarship in their respective countries. Carolyn Tuohy, from the University of Toronto, will provide the Canadian perspective in the panel discussion.

A second panel discussion will focus on policy maker perspectives, and include Ron Sapsford, Ontario's deputy minister of health, Penny Ballem, a former deputy minister of health in British Columbia, and Pierre-Gerlier Forest, president of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation which promotes research in the humanities and social sciences.

CHEPA and McMaster University are taking a leading role in developing health policy scholarship in Canada by launching the country's first interdisciplinary PhD in Health Policy, which will accept its first students in 2008.

The invitational symposium is being held at the Royal Botanical Gardens, and is supported by funding from McMaster University's Collaborations for Health initiative and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

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[img_inline align="right" src="http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Schlesinger_Mark.jpg" caption="Mark Schlesinger will be one of the speakers at a one-day symposium organized by the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis. Photo courtesy of FHS. "]The current state of health policy scholarship in Canada and ideas for its growth and advancement will be discussed at a one-day symposium organized by the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis.<br />
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<p>The Nov. 2 event entitled Field of Dreams: Strengthening Health Policy Scholarship in Canada will bring together more than 40 people from across Canada who are involved in health policy teaching, research and practice.<br />
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<p>While health policy is a defined field of scholarship in other countries, supported by many research institutes, funding bodies, publication outlets and training programs, its Canadian counterpart is not as well established.<br />
<br />
<p>This inaugural symposium is designed to stimulate discussions about how the field of health policy in Canada is defined, what its major contributions have been as well as its unrealized potential, and what supports it needs to flourish. A major objective of the symposium is to lay the groundwork for an action plan for strengthening Canada&#039;s health policy research capacity and infrastructure.<br />
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<p>In addition to Canadian leaders in the field, speakers include two noted international health policy researchers. Mark Schlesinger, a leading American researcher from the Yale School of Public Health, and Gwyn Bevan, a professor of Management Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will share their views on health policy scholarship in their respective countries. Carolyn Tuohy, from the University of Toronto, will provide the Canadian perspective in the panel discussion.<br />
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<p>A second panel discussion will focus on policy maker perspectives, and include Ron Sapsford, Ontario&#039;s deputy minister of health, Penny Ballem, a former deputy minister of health in British Columbia, and Pierre-Gerlier Forest, president of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation which promotes research in the humanities and social sciences.<br />
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<p>CHEPA and McMaster University are taking a leading role in developing health policy scholarship in Canada by launching the country&#039;s first interdisciplinary PhD in Health Policy, which will accept its first students in 2008.<br />
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<p>The invitational symposium is being held at the Royal Botanical Gardens, and is supported by funding from McMaster University&#039;s Collaborations for Health initiative and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.<br />

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