2017 The Institute of Health Economics, in partnership with numerous other organizations, regularly hosts small invitational policy dialogues with visiting speakers and Alberta stakeholders to engage in policy dialogues on important topics relevant to Alberta health system priorities. Most of these events are conducted under Chatham House rules and deliberations are confidential,…
The Institute of Health Economics, in partnership with numerous other organizations, regularly hosts health policy series and single events to discuss current topics in health policy with a broad audience. One of the ongoing speaker series is the Alberta Innovates – IHE Health Policy Speaker Series, which showcases visiting thought-leaders in health. In development are a number…
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Addressing gaps and challenges with the integration of precision health technologies into the Canadian health system – Summary report of an IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop Download Summary Report
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Summary Report Diabetes care and management in Indigenous populations in Canada – Summary report of a pan-Canadian policy roundtableDownload Summary Report Program Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: A pan-Canadian Roundtable – Final ProgramDownload Final Program Background Document Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations…
Wednesday, 1 November 2017 Edmonton, Alberta 12:00 – 12:45 Lunch 12:45 – 13:00 Welcome and Blessing Elder Marvin Littlechild, Treaty No. 6https://vimeo.com/album/4855345/video/242262239 13:00 – 13:50 Context Setting Overview of Roundtable background report: The economic impact of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous populations in Canada.John Sproule Senior Policy Director,…
Keynote Speaker Chief Dr. Robert Joseph O.B.C.Chief, Gwawaenuk First Nation; Ambassador, Reconciliation Canada Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, O.B.C., is a true peace-builder whose life and work are examples of his personal commitment. A Hereditary Chief of the Gwawa'enuxw First Nation, Chief Joseph has dedicated his life to bridging the differences brought about by intolerance, lack…
1 November 2017 Edmonton, Alberta On November 1st, 2017, the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) hosted a pan-Canadian roundtable discussion regarding diabetes care and management in indigenous populations in Canada. Participation included 49 delegates representing 34 unique organizations from Yukon, BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, as well as several national/Federal…
Sunday, 22 October 2017 Toronto, Ontario 13:00 – 13:15 Introduction and Welcome – IHE Dan Palfrey, Senior Consultant, Institute of Health Economics 13:15 – 14:00 The Potential Contribution of Precision Health to Patient Care and the Canadian Experience Thus Far Katherine Bonter, Director Of Intellectual Property, Clementia Pharmaceuticals Inc.Download Presentation…
Speaker and Panelist Biographies Louise BinderHealth Policy Consultant, Save Your Skin Foundation Louise is a lawyer and health advocate who has been involved in informing the development of health policy and systemic treatment access practices from a patient perspective for more than 20 years. She started her work in this area in the HIV community in the early 1990s after her…
22 October 2017 Toronto, Ontario On October 22, 2017, in conjunction with the 2017 Annual CAPT Conference, the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) and the Canadian Association for Population Therapeutics (CAPT) co-hosted the IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop. Precision Health (PH) has potential to provide a wide range of solutions such as enhanced R&D efficiency, earlier diagnosis…
Ken Bond1, Alun Cameron2, Paula Corabian1, Bing Guo1*, Christa Harstall1, Iñaki Imaz Iglesia3, Carmen Moga1*, Maria Ospina1, Don Schopflocher4, and Ann Scott1 participated in the modified Delphi and or validation process; Patricia Chatterley1 and Liz Dennett1 searched the literature and provided information support; Wendy McIndoo1 provided assistance during the Delphi process.…
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Speaker Biographies Keynote Speakers Mr. Nigel Edwards CEO, Nuffield Trust Nigel Edwards is Chief Executive at the Nuffield Trust. Prior to becoming Chief Executive in 2014, Nigel was an expert advisor with KPMG’s Global Centre of Excellence for Health and Life Sciences and a Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund. Nigel was Policy Director of the NHS Confederation for 11 years and has…
2 May 2017Edmonton, Alberta Building a Community-Based Health System: Lessons for a Path Forward is the 17th IHE Innovation Forum, a semi-annual event bringing together senior public- and private-sector experts and decision-makers to address health care policy issues. Our 17th IHE Innovation Forum Keynote Speakers are Nigel Edwards, CEO, Nuffield Trust, and Muhamad Elrashidi, Kern…
2 May 2017Edmonton, Alberta Welcome and Greetings GreetingsDr. Lorne TyrrellBoard Chair, IHEDr. Carl AmrheinDeputy Minister, Alberta Healthhttps://vimeo.com/album/4593585/video/216192193 Keynote Presentations Shifting the Balance of Care: Great ExpectationsMr. Nigel EdwardsCEO, Nuffield TrustDownload Presentationhttps://vimeo.com/album/4593585/video/216192696 Co-located, Integrated…
23 April 2017 Ottawa, Ontario On April 23rd, the IHE held an invitational forum on the topic of biosimilars in conjunction with the annual CADTH meeting. Download Summary ReportTowards a framework for biosimilar evidence and knowledge exchange – Summary report of the IHE Biosimilars Forum The meeting objectives were to: leverage a previous IHE Biosimilars Forum and share summary…
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Biographies Ms. Julia Brown Julia Brown has been with Janssen Inc. for 14 years and is currently the Vice President of Government Affairs and Market Access. Previous roles at Janssen include National Director of Government and Community Relations, Director of Health Economics and Reimbursement, and Director of Government Relations, Ontario/Atlantic. Julia also serves as the Past-President…
12:30 – 13:00 Opening RemarksDr. Chris Henshall, Professor, Health Economics Research Group, Brunel Universityhttps://vimeo.com/album/4584047/video/215117100 13:00 – 13:15 Setting the Stage: Enabling Elements to Achieve Biosimilar ObjectivesMr. Dan Palfrey, Senior Consultant, Institute of Health Economicshttps://vimeo.com/album/4584047/video/215117153 13:15 –…
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e-Health Policy Symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health in Alberta – Morning AgendaDownload Agenda
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14 February 2017 Edmonton, Alberta The Institute of Health Economics and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health, in collaboration with Alberta Health, are pleased to have co-hosted a public policy symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health – focused on moving Alberta towards a person-centric health system, and the need to improve continuity…
Biographies Moderators Dr. William Ghali, MD, MPH, FRCPCScientific Director, O’Brien Institute for Public HealthProfessor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary Dr. Ghali is a General Internist (MD, University of Calgary; FRCPC, Queen’s University) with methodological training in health services research and epidemiology (MPH) from the Boston…
Tuesday, 14 February 2017 Edmonton, Alberta 09:00 – 09:15 Greetings and Opening Remarks Dr. Carl Amrhein, Deputy Minister of HealthDr. William Ghali, Scientific Director, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of CalgaryMr. John Sproule, Senior Policy Director, Institute of Health Economicshttps://vimeo.com/album/4434657/video/205238362 09:15 – 09:30 A Citizen's…
Tuesday, 24 January 2017 Edmonton, Alberta Note: For copies of presentations, please contact Isabel Salcedo at [email protected]. 12:00 – 12:10 Opening Remarks - AIMr. Reg Joseph, Alberta Innovates 12:10 – 12:20 Opening Remarks – Innovative Medicines Canada Mr. Gilles Gagnon, Ceapro Inc. 12:20 – 12:30 Engagement Objectives & StructureMr.…
Speaker Biographies Ms. Anne BabineauDirector, Prairies, Innovative Medicines Canada Anne is the Director, Prairies with Innovative Medicines Canada and works with key partners and stakeholders to advocate for an improved environment for the research-based pharmaceutical industry so that research and development activities in Canada can continue to develop new medicines and vaccines…
24 January 2017 Edmonton, Alberta This event was a first meeting of the SCNs and the Canadian innovative pharmaceutical industry (Innovative Medicines Canada and members). The event was held in Edmonton on January 24, 2017 and was hosted by Alberta Innovates, in partnership with Alberta Health Services/SCNs, Innovative Medicines Canada, and the Institute of Health Economics. The…
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Partnering for a Healthier Alberta – Summary Report from SCN/Innovative Medicines Canada Engagement Held January 24th, 2017Download Summary Report
Thursday, 19 January 2017 Edmonton, Alberta Please click the following link to watch the recorded webcast: Event Webcast 08:15 – 08:30 Opening Greetings and Remarks Dr. Carl Amrhein, Deputy Minister of Healthhttps://vimeo.com/album/4374633/video/201377972 08:30 – 10:30 Session 1 Opening Addresses: High Performing Health Systems: Measuring and Managing Dr. Reinhard…
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Speaker Biographies Dr. Carl Amrhein Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Carl Amrhein was appointed Deputy Minister, Alberta Health on August 4, 2015. Prior to this, he was the Official Administrator for Alberta Health Services and served as Provost for the University of Alberta from 2003 to 2014 Dr. Francois Belanger Vice President, Quality and Chief Medical Officer for Alberta Health…
19 January 2017 Edmonton, Alberta The Value in Health Invitational Forum: Standards, Quality, and Economics was intended to provide an overview from provincial, national, and international leaders around key issues to consider and address from a system perspective when developing an approach to extract value from a complex health system. The concept of system organization for a)…
Speaker Biographies Keynote Speaker Mr. Don DrummondFormer Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group Don Drummond is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at TD Financial Group. He retired from TD to his current role as Matthews Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the School of Policy Studies at Queens University. Prior to joining…
6 December 2012Edmonton, Alberta Introductory Remarks – Government of Alberta Honourable Fred Horne, Minister of Healthhttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/56013748 Keynote Presentation Mr. Don Drummond, Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Grouphttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/56036522 Panel Discussion ModeratorDr. Annette Trimbee,…
6 December 2012 Edmonton, Alberta Value for Money in the Health System was the eighth in the series of Innovation Forums. The keynote speaker, Mr. Don Drummond, Matthews Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the School of Policy Studies at Queens University, and a former Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the Government of Canada, as well as a former Senior Vice President…
Stroke Prevention and Management in Primary Care: a free forum at the 2012 Accelerating Primary Care Conference Sunday, 18 November 2012 Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta Stroke Update 2012 was a free forum for primary care clinicians, held in conjunction with the annual Accelerating Primary Care conference in Banff, Alberta, November 18, 2012. The forum brought together…
18 – 19 October 2012 Canmore, Alberta The EQ-5D is a standardized instrument developed by the EuroQol group for use as a measure of health outcome. It considers five dimensions of health-related quality of life: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, anxiety/depression. When the need for greater collaboration around implementation and use of the EQ-5D in Alberta…
Biographies Stirling Bryan National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Experience with Using the EQ-5D in Economic Analysis Dr. Stirling Bryan is a professor in UBC's School of Population & Public Health, and Director of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Dr. Bryan is an economist with a career-long specialization…
Thurs 18 Oct 2012 | Fri 19 Oct 2012 Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:45 – 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Charlene McBrien-Morrison, Executive Director, Health Quality Council of Alberta Steve Buick, Director of Policy and Communications, Institute of Health Economics Kathryn Todd, Senior Vice President, Research, Alberta Health Services 09:00 – 09:30 EQ-5D - Building Common Understanding…
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30 July 2012 Montréal, Québec The concept of “personalized medicine” in health is garnering increased attention. Personalized medicine can be defined as the tailoring of preventive, diagnostic, or therapeutic interventions to the characteristics of an individual or population. This may involve genetic or laboratory biomarker information. As personalized…
Monday, 30 July 2012Montréal, Québec Welcome, Introductions, and Overview John Sproule, IHEDon Husereau, University of Ottawa Roundtable Discussion – Assessment of System Readiness Moderator: John Sproule Is the current state of adoption and implementation ideal? What should the goals be for personalized medicine in Canada? What are the components of a vision…
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31 May 2012 Edmonton, Alberta
Social Determinants of Health is the seventh IHE Innovation Forum, a semi-annual event bringing together senior public- and private-sector experts and decision-makers to address health care policy issues.
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Speaker Biographies Keynote Speaker Sir Michael MarmotDirector, Institute of Health Equity and MRC Research Professor in Epidemiology, University College London Sir Michael Marmot has led a research group on health inequalities for the past 30 years. He has been invited by the Regional Director of WHO Euro to conduct a European review of health inequalities. At the request of the…
31 May 2012Edmonton, Alberta Welcome and Introductions Dr. Lorne Tyrrell, Chair, Institute of Health EconomicsDownload Presentation http://vimeo.com/channels/907291/44105094 Dr. Chris Mazurkewich, Executive Vice President and CEO, Alberta Health Serviceshttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/45175125 Honourable David Hancock, Minister of Human Serviceshttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/44087423 …
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6 – 7 February 2012 Edmonton, Alberta As part of the Alberta Ambassador Guideline Adaptation Program, in February 2012, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) in partnership with the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) sponsored a two day meeting of content, administrative and research experts to identify the breadth of diagnostic imaging studies that CIHI might feasibly…
11 – 12 January 2012 Ottawa, Ontario The IHE has established a series of methodologic forums with the intent of identifying and addressing major methodological challenges in informing policies and decisions around the funding and use of health technologies, in partnership with its private and public stakeholders that are involved in the production of evidence and use of assessment.…
Speakers Dr. Jeffrey Hoch Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Director Pharmacoeconomics Research Unit, Cancer Care Ontario Dr. Stuart Peacock Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia; Co-Director, Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control Mr. Don Husereau…
Wednesday – Thursday, 11 – 12 January 2012Ottawa, Ontario Selected Plenary Presentations from Health Canada/CIHR Workshop Measuring Value in Personalized MedicineDr. Deborah Marshallhttp://player.vimeo.com/video/35735037 HTA Assessment in Australia - Challenges for Personalized MedicineDr. Robyn Wardhttp://player.vimeo.com/video/35785570 Stratified Medicine - Observations…
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