Thank you to all who attended and participated in this year’s Research and Impact Day. Every year, this flagship event provides an opportunity for students to showcase their important work, hear from experts in the field, and connect with our fellow IHPME community members.
The theme for this year was “Navigating the Future: The Role of AI in Transformative Healthcare.” Attendees engaged with poster and oral presentations from students across program disciplines that focused on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare systems and delivery models.
Programming highlights included an expert panel discussion, featuring speakers who shared their insights on how AI is revolutionizing healthcare and a keynote address by Dr. Muhammad Mamdani, Vice President of Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Unity Health Toronto and Director of the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM).
Student Awards
Please join us in congratulating the following student award winners:
Oral Presentations AM
- Health Equity: Adom Bondzi-Simpson
- A.I. and Machine Learning: Jethro Kwong
- Global Health & Climate Change: Anam Shahil-Feroz
- Health Systems Research: Katherine Sawicka
- Health Policy: Rafael Miranda
- Epidemiology: Sean Ong
Oral Presentations PM
- Health Equity: Michael Geurguis
- A.I. and Machine Learning: Chloe Wong
- Health Systems Research: Carly Butkowsky
- Health Economics: Armaan Malhotra
- Health Informatics: Anam Shahil-Feroz
- Epidemiology: Omri Arbiv
- Maureen Dixon Award: Katherine Sawicka
- Robert Duff Barron Award: Guan Wang
MSc – HSR, QIPS and SLI (poster)
Leonet Reid
PhD – HSR Eugene Vayda
Pratyasha Acharya
MSc Clin Epi – GSU Poster Award
Caroline Cristofaro
PhD Clin Epi (Gillian Hawker Poster Award)
Kristel Leung
2024 Research and Impact Day Sponsors
Our thanks to this year’s sponsors for their generosity, which allowed us to have another opportunity to showcase our students’ work.
Gold Sponsors:
- Canadian Centre for Health Economics (CCHE)
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Health System Performance Network (HSPN)
- IHPME GSU
- Closing the Gap Healthcare
- Home Care Ontario
Silver Sponsors:
- The Centre for Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- The Wilson Centre
Thank you to our volunteers!
Finally, we would like to extend our gratitude to our volunteers for their invaluable contributions to Research & Impact Day’s success. Your dedication, enthusiasm and hard work played an instrumental role in ensuring the event was a positive experience for all involved.
See you all for Research & Impact Day 2025!
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