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CHEPA at a Glance

Founded in 1987, the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) is a world-class interdisciplinary health research centre that fosters excellence in acquiring, producing and communicating socially-relevant knowledge in the fields of health economics and health policy analysis to inform fair and sustainable health and social systems.

We are:

  • Home to one of the largest concentrations of health economists and health policy analysts in Canada
  • A group of 29 faculty members from three faculties and seven McMaster University departments, with an additional member from Brock University
  • Talented, discipline-based and inter-disciplinary researchers who address a broad range of health and social system problems through independent and collaborative research programs
  • Pioneers in the fields of knowledge transfer, economic evaluation, health technology assessment and public, patient and community engagement
  • Notable contributors to health human resources, needs-based and primary care funding models
  • An incubator for new graduate training programs in health policy, health economics and health services research

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