
UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
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Advancing world-class health services and policy research and training on issues that matter to Canadians. Our annual health policy conference: #CHSPR2025
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.UBC's School of Population and Public Health 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/



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


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 UBC Events Calendar UBC Community Engagement


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. UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research Deadline for submission: Nov 29, 2024. longwoods.com/articles/image……





AI is becoming more embedded in the field of health care. UBC Department of Family Practice clinical prof. Dr. Sian Tsuei discusses why patients and doctors should stay informed about the use of AI in health care in this The Canadian Press News article. bit.ly/4dJuZsQ

Addressing underrepresentation through purposeful inclusiveness & #equitable representation is critically important for sustained and effective #publicengagement, writes Editor Jason Sutherland UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Future of Canada Project #specialissue #openaccess #cdnhealth longwoods.com/content/27418/…



Join us for a hybrid seminar Nov 7, where Ruth Lavergne - @ruthlavergne.bsky.social 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…


How can public input help design safe & trustworthy #DataSharing processes? Read #HDRNCanada CEO @kimchspr UBC's School of Population and Public Health UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research + colleagues' new International Journal of Population Data Science publication on a public deliberation to capture citizen views on the use of #HealthData in research in BC: ijpds.org/news/14-10-202…


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 Healthcare Excellence Canada


Congrats to all the research trainees, especially Dr Claire Liu, general surgery resident University of British Columbia, who will be linking & comparing oncologic, surgical, & patient reported outcomes after breast conserving surgery vs mastectomy. Her work UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research is supervised by Dr Jason Sutherland.



Registration is open for the 2025 Health Quality BC 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/…

