Feng Xie awarded new research funding

August 10, 2021

Research will gauge pandemic’s impact on obesity and diabetes

July 23, 2021

Laura Anderson leads a team of co-investigators awarded funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on obesity and diabetes among adults participating in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Teaching program will improve access to home palliative care in Indigenous communities

July 21, 2021

Hsien Seow is developing a large education intervention aimed at improving access to community-based palliative care for Ontario’s Indigenous communities, with support of $1.24 million in funding and the partnership of Indigenous Services Canada.

Nominate a ‘rising star’ health services researcher to give the 30th anniversary Labelle lecture

June 25, 2021

The Labelle Lectureship Committee of McMaster University is seeking nominations for a promising junior health services researcher — a rising star in the field — to give the 2021-22 Labelle Lecture – its 30th anniversary.

Doctoral essay wins top award from Emmett Hall Foundation

June 18, 2021

Congratulations to Daniel Tingskou, a PhD candidate in Economics supervised by Michel Grignon, on winning the 2021 the Jack Boan Student Essay Competition, sponsored by the Justice Emmett Hall Foundation, for his Doctoral Essay entitled “Income Splitting, Interprovincial Physician Migration in Canada, and Health Care Accessibility.”

Abelson leads group awarded catalyst funding by the Future of Canada Project

April 13, 2021

Hurley leads Future of Canada initiative to support policy development for a flourishing Canada

April 13, 2021

Costa co-leads massive study of COVID-19's impact on long-term care residents, staff and visitors

March 18, 2021

A $5-million study co-led by CHEPA member Andrew Costa and Dawn Bowdish, an immunologist and professor of medicine at McMaster, and which includes Arthur Sweetman among a large group of co-investigators, will involve more than 2,000 residents, staff and visitors of long-term care homes in Ontario to measure the far-reaching impact of COVID-19.

PREVENT trial seeks to reduce hip factures in elderly

March 5, 2021

CHEPA members Andrew Costa and Jean- Éric Tarride are among a group of researchers awarded a CIHR 2020 Project Grant for: “The PREVENT trial: a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial of a multicomponent fracture prevention model for long-term care.”

'The Waiting Room Revolution' podcast launched

March 2, 2021

A new podcast, 'The Waiting Room Revolution', unlocks the secrets to a better illness experience.