June 6, 2019
By Heidi Singer If you’re curious about the new Ontario Health Teams – how to form one, what they will look like, how they will work, and why they may transform care in the province – few people know more… Read more
June 6, 2019
By Rebecca Biason Working as a general internist on busy hospital wards, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw was struck by how many patients were returning to hospital after being discharged. Some were experiencing adverse effects from their medication, while others, who had been… Read more
June 6, 2019
By Rebecca Biason Two years ago, Khaled Almilaji a Syrian physician and humanitarian, was caught the throes of a U.S. travel ban, unable to return to his studies in public health at Brown University or to his pregnant wife Jehan… Read more
June 6, 2019
by Rebecca Biason Female survivors of childhood cancers who have been treated with thoracic radiation, such as survivors of Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL), have a higher risk of developing breast cancer later in life compared to the general population. To mitigate… Read more
June 3, 2019
by Emmanuelle Arpin This year’s GSU has numerous accomplishments to be proud of. A few of them include, maintaining and enhancing the various Mentorship Programs across IHPME streams, initiating the IHPME Writing Circles, establishing the IHPME Conference Stipend for full-time and part-time research… Read more
May 8, 2019
On April 22, IHPME’s Theresa Lee joined over 200 winners of the Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award at a special ceremony in their honour, also attended by Gordon Cressy himself. The awards, first established by the U of T Alumni… Read more
May 8, 2019
In the city of Jaffna located on the northern tip of Sri Lanka’s coast, a busy public hospital is making plans to reduce drug errors on its pediatric ward, where a chaotic setting combined with overworked medical staff makes for… Read more
April 16, 2019
In Canada, Indigenous people continue to face persistent health inequities, that are rooted in colonialism and racism. These issues extend to cancer and cancer screening in Ontario, where Indigenous persons report a lack of cultural safety and have have worse… Read more
April 8, 2019
The Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation (IHPME) joins the family of Meyer Brownstone in mourning his passing at the age of 96. A champion for peace and social justice, Mr. Brownstone is remembered as one of the architects… Read more
April 3, 2019
Medical student and MSc SLI student Lucshman Raveendran has been awarded a ten-week fellowship this summer through the American Urological Association, a fund that seeks to cultivate the interests of driven medical students in advancing urological research. Raveendran is currently… Read more