UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research

The 37th annual CHSPR health policy conference will confront the primary care crisis. The early bird registration deadline is one week from today on Feb 3, 2025. chspr.ubc.ca/conference/

Registration is open for the 2025 @healthqualitybc Quality Forum, one of our favourite annual conferences. We love connecting with our community to discuss ongoing quality improvement across the continuum of care in BC. See you there! healthqualitybc.ca/quality-forum/…

It’s no secret that wait times for elective surgeries in Canada are long. In the first installment of our new Access to Care series, Advancing Health’s Dr. Jason Sutherland discusses the past, present, and future of surgical wait times across the nation. advancinghealth.ubc.ca/research-in-ac…

Only 6 weeks remaining to apply to @tutor_phc the only #interdisciplinary #primarycare #researchtraining program in Canada! The deadline for grad students, post docs, early-career researchers, decision-makers & clinicians to apply is Dec. 13th. bit.ly/3tolzl7

Excited to Share Our New Chapter in Tackling Systemic Bias in Primary Care and Public Health Research as featured in DLSPH News!🌟 Our recent Lancet study is the first to uncover how systemic bias and institutional culture — including racism, sexism, and unconscious bias — act as significant barriers to research productivity for racialized women in primary care in Canada. We are thrilled to announce our next step: a new SSHRC-funded project that builds on this foundational work. This project will allow us to delve deeper into these barriers faced by racialized women researchers in primary care and public health at all career stages to find solutions that can dismantle barriers in entry, faculty, and leadership roles. This work is about empowering these researchers, amplifying their voices, and showing they’re not alone. For leaders, it’s a call to implement evidence-based strategies for real, lasting change. Thank you to my incredible team @sabrinawong88 , Ivy Bourgeault, Aisha Lofter, Gina Agarwal, Kristina Kokorelias, Dr. Andrea C. Tricco and Tanvir Turin Chowdhury for their contributions. I’m also immensely grateful to SSHRC for supporting this vital work. dlsph.utoronto.ca/2024/11/04/dls… #DiversityInResearch #InclusiveWorkforce #AcademicResearch #LeadershipInclusion #EmpowerWomen #HigherEducation #PrimaryCare #PrimaryHealthCare #DLSPHNews

Congrats to all the research trainees, especially Dr Claire Liu, general surgery resident @UBC, who will be linking & comparing oncologic, surgical, & patient reported outcomes after breast conserving surgery vs mastectomy. Her work @CHSPR is supervised by Dr Jason Sutherland.

As part of Canadian Patient Safety Week we are hosting a film screening & deeper discussion tomorrow starting at 2:00 pm MT. Register here: gregswings.ca/cpsw24 #inspiredbyGreg #cpsw2024 #understandharm #patientsafetyweek #healthcarefilm @HE_ES_Canada

How can public input help design safe & trustworthy #DataSharing processes? Read #HDRNCanada CEO @kimchspr @ubcspph @CHSPR + colleagues' new @IJPDS publication on a public deliberation to capture citizen views on the use of #HealthData in research in BC: ijpds.org/news/14-10-202…

Join us for a hybrid seminar Nov 7, where @RuthLavergne will discuss health experiences of immigrants & migrants in BC, incl lessons learned w/ respect to analytic choices & interpretation of findings from health & immigration data linkage. Register: chspr.ubc.ca/2024/09/17/chs…

Announcing more speakers for Voices for Health Equity on Nov 4th. Hear from public scholars @ManviBhalla, Jonathan Easey (bit.ly/4faJlUo) and other folks 👇 working to advance health equity. Free and open to the public. Register (&details) here: bit.ly/3BvBCBW.

Addressing underrepresentation through purposeful inclusiveness & #equitable representation is critically important for sustained and effective #publicengagement, writes Editor Jason Sutherland @CHSPR. @MacFutureCanada #specialissue #openaccess #cdnhealth longwoods.com/content/27418/…

AI is becoming more embedded in the field of health care. @UBCFamPractice clinical prof. Dr. Sian Tsuei discusses why patients and doctors should stay informed about the use of AI in health care in this @CdnPressNews article. bit.ly/4dJuZsQ

Join us for our next Learning Series on October 22nd by registering here: cpcrn-rcrsp.ca/2024-learning-…

Don't miss this one! We are looking forward to hosting Ehsan Karim on Tuesday Oct 15.

The call for poster abstracts is open for #CHSPR2025, our 37th annual health policy conference (Mar 3-4, 2025). Working on a primary care topic? Submit by Dec 16 at chspr.ubc.ca/conference/abs…. Abstracts related to health services & policy research more generally are also welcome.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! To reflect the importance of surgery in the #cdnhealth landscape, the #EditorinChief of #HealthcarePolicy, Jason Sutherland, is calling for a special issue in Canadian #surgicalpolicy. @CHSPR Deadline for submission: Nov 29, 2024. longwoods.com/articles/image……

Join us Nov 4 for "Voices for Health Equity" at Robson Square! Connect with scholars, leaders, and community members driving change in health equity. Space is limited—register now! bit.ly/3BvBCBW #VoicesforHealthEquity #UBCHealth #PSI @UBCevents @UBCCommEngage

Save the date! Our 37th annual health policy conference will be held @UBC Vancouver (and virtually) March 3-4, 2025. #CHSPR2025 will confront the primary care crisis. Learn more at chspr.ubc.ca/conference/

🎺REGISTER NOW for our #BestEvidence for Clinicians annual course bit.ly/3xmmuVP 👉🏽So MANY topics relevant to family docs, NPs, pharmacists in BC & elsewhere! 😍 👉🏽GREAT downtown conference hotel rate! 🏨 👉🏽Discounts for TI PORTRAIT subscribers 😍 #DrugEvidence24

.@ubcspph Phd student Michael Bond led a study on the association btw wait times for elective lumbar spine surgery & post-op patient-reported outcomes. Pts who received surgery w/in 3 & 6-month benchmarks were more likely to experience post-op improvement. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39322408/