Health Services Systems and Policy Research Seminar Series
The HSSPR seminar series is offered annually, with themes varying each year.
Past Seminar Series
Listen to recordings or review the abstracts of past seminars.
- Developing Supportive Physical Environments for People Living with Dementia in Long-Term Care Settings
October 18th, 2023, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Habib Chaudhury, PhD | Chair and Professor in the Department of Gerontology at the Simon Fraser University
Recording: Developing Supportive Physical Environments… - Between a Rock and a Hard place – Designing Homes for Older Adults
November 22nd, 2023, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Rotem Yaniv, MArch | Project Architect at Murphy Partners Senior Housing Architects
Recording: Between a Rock and a Hard place – Designing Homes for Older Adults - Surfacing the Need and Concepts for Alternative Design in Long Term Care
December 20th, 2023, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Chantal Trudel, BA, BID, MSc | Associate Professor, School of Industrial Design at the Carleton University - Green Care Farm
January 10th, 2024, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Rebekah Churchyard, MSW | CEO, Founder of Green Care Farms Inc. - Civility Matters: Workplace Incivility and Bullying among Staff in Long-Term Care
February 7th, 2024, 3:30-5:00pm EST
Heather Cooke, PhD | Manager, Research and Knowledge Mobilization for the Alzheimer Society of B.C.
Recording: Civility Matters (part 1), Civility Matters – Panel Discussion (part 2) - Involving Older Adults Actively in Research and Improvement in Care Systems
February 21st, 2024, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Anne Killett, PhD | Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Director of Research in the School of Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia
Recording: Involving Older Adults Actively in Research and Improvement in Care Systems - Creating Healthy Work Environments in Long-term Care: A Holistic Approach to Applying Evidence based Design
March 6th, 2024, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Terri Zborowsky, PhD | Evidence-based design researcher at HGA - Impact of Shared Residential Care Settings on Older Adults
March 20th, 2024, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Margaret Calkins, PhD | President of I.D.E.A.S. Inc. - Designing for Older Adults in Healthcare: A Perspective on the Place of Care and the Work Place
April 10th, 2024, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Cliff Harvey | Joint Vice President, Redevelopment, Grand River Hospital - Promoting the Health of Workers and Older Adults in Long-Term Care Homes With Access to Nature
April 24th, 2024, 4:00-5:30pm EST
Peggy Chi, PhD, MLA, CSLA, OALA | Landscape architect and Postdoctoral Fellow at IHPME
- Design Charrette: Building Salutogenic Long-Term Care Homes
April 29th, 2024, 8:00am-4:00pm EST
- Salutogenic Built Environments for Health
October 18, 2022
Stephen Verderber, Arch,D., NCARB, ACSA Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto - English Care Homes and Sense of ‘Home’: The Winding Road
November 30, 2022
Anne Killett, Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia - Driving Sustainable Development Transformations with Emotional Leadership
December 14, 2022
Neal M. Ashkanasy OAM, PhD, Professor of Management, Business School, The University of Queensland - Finding Our Path Forward: The Healthcare Workers Post Pandemic Journey Back to Purpose
January 18, 2023
Jim Kinsey, Vice President of Engagement Strategies at Planetree International - Assessing Preferences and Perceived Restorative Qualities of Break Spaces for Nurses in China Purpose
February 15, 2023
Xiaoyi Zhu, MS, BArch - Healthy Offices: Exploring the Salutogenic Approach in the Context of Office Design
March 1, 2023
Melina Forooraghi
- Generational Diversity
October 7, 2021
Dr. Cort Rudolph, Saint Louis University.
Recording: Generations and Generational Differences at Work: Where do we Stand? - Discrimination and Audience Evaluations
October 21, 2021
Dr. Bryan Stroube, London Business School.
Recording: Status and Consensus: Heterogeneity in Audience Evaluations of Female Lead Films - Stigma and the Stigmatization Process in Organizations
November 4, 2021
Dr. Brent Lyons, York University.
Recording: Stigma and the stigmatization process in organizations - Gender Diversity
November 18, 2021
Dr. Ivona Hideg, York University.
Recording: Gender diversity - The Value of Women’s Health Work
March 3, 2022
Dr. Beverley Essue, DLSPH, University of Toronto - Racial Codeswitching
March 10, 2022 (cancelled)
Dr. Courtney McCluney, Cornell University - Racial Codeswitching
March 10, 2022 (cancelled)
Dr. Courtney McCluney, Cornell University
- Organizational Science and Health Care
October 6, 2020
Christopher Myers, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, - Professional Identity
October 27, 2020
Dr. Julia DiBenigno, Yale University - Leadership
November 10, 2020
Dr. Sara Singer, Stanford University - Sensemaking
November 24, 2020
Dr. Marlys Christianson, University of Toronto - Institutional Change
December 1, 2020
Dr. Nigam Amit, Cass University London (UK) - Groups and Teams
December 8, 2020
Dr. Michaela Kerrissey, Harvard School of Public Health - Conflict
December 15, 2020
Dr. Ariel Avgar, Cornell University - Social Networks
January 26, 2021
Dr. Jerry Kim, Rutgers University - Innovation
February 9, 2021
Dr. Timothy Hoff, Northeastern University - Organizational Learning
February 23, 2021
Dr. Ingrid Nembhard, University of Pennsylvania - High Reliability Organizations
March 9, 2021
Dr. Timothy Vogus, Vanderbilt University - Shared Mental Models
March 23, 2021
Dr. Jenna Evans, McMaster - Moral Behavior
March 30, 2021
Dr. Meena Andiappan, University of Toronto IHPME - Strategic alliances/Organizational Design
April 6, 2021
Dr. Thomas D’Aunno, New York University
- An Introduction to Dissemination & Implementation Science
October 29, 2019
Dr. Melanie Barwick, Hospital for Sick Children & Dr. Katie Dainty North York General Hospital - Implementation Research: Why and How it Matters to Global Health
November 21, 2019
Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Dr. Halla Thorsteinsdóttir, Dalla Lana School of Public Health - A Network Perspective of D & I
December 11, 2019
Dr. Reza Yousefi-Nooraie, University of Rochester - The History & Evolution of Dissemination & Implementation Science
January 29, 2020
Dr. James Dearing, Michigan State University - Conceptualizing Sustainability as a Dynamic, Iterative Process
February 5, 2020
Dr. David Chambers, National Cancer Institute - Research Approaches, Methods & Methodological Challenges in Implementation Science
February 19, 2020
Dr. Monika Kastner, North York General Hospital - Applied Implementation Science: Where Theory Meets Practice
February 25, 2020
Dr. Melanie Barwick, Hospital for Sick Children - Perspectives, Theories & Frameworks Used in DIS
March 3, 2020
Dr. Melanie Barwick, Hospital for Sick Children - De-Implementation & Other Thorny Issues
March 11, 2020
Dr. Karen Born, St. Michael’s Hospital - Implementation Science and Complexity Science at a Crossroads: Learning Systems for Advancing Community Health
April 28,2020
Peter S. Hovmand, Brown School’s Social System Design Lab, Washington University - Scale Up & Scale Out: Similarities, Differences and Methods
May 21, 2020
Dr. Monika Kastner, North York General Hospital and Dr. Halla Thorsteinsdóttir, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- AI in Healthcare: Promises and Challenges
October 30, 2018
Paul Sulkers, Former National Healthcare Executive with IBM and Adjunct Lecturer at IHPME - Learning “Healthy” Models for Healthcare
November 27, 2018
Marzyeh Ghassemi, Assistant Professor, Faculties of Computer Science & Medicine, University of Toronto Faculty Member, Vector Institute - Perspectives on Ethics in AI for Health
January 22, 2019
Jennifer Gibson, Director Joint Centre for Bioethics and Jay Shaw Assistant Professor, IHPME & Scientist Health Systems Solutions & Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital - Machine Learning in Health: The Future of Saving Lives
March 12, 2019
Elham Dolatabadi, PhD Vector Institute - Learning to Adapt and Care Compassionately in the World of Data and Artificial Intelligence
April 2, 2019
David Wiljer, UHN & IHPME
- Applied Network Approaches to Diffusion of Health Innovations
November 8, 2017
James Dearing, Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Communication, Michigan State University - Multilevel Perspectives on the Diffusion of Health Care Best Practices
December 6, 2017
Amanda M. Beacom, Visiting Scholar at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College - Measuring and Influencing Community, Patient and Public Engagement Through Social Network Analysis
February 21, 2018
Jon Salsberg, Senior Lecturer Primary Health Care Research, Public and Patient Involvement, University of Limerick - Examining Network Evolution in Health and Human Services: The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Naturalistic Study Designs
March 21, 2018
Alicia Bunger, Associate Professor, College of Social Work, Ohio State University - Systems Science Methods in Public Health: Dynamics, Networks, and Agents
March 23, 2018
Douglas Luke, Professor and Director of the Centre for Public Health Systems Science (CPHSS), The Brown School