MSFHR is pleased to be partnering with CIHR’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research to co-fund six 2018 Health System Impact Fellows, enabling a total of 13 Fellows to be awarded in BC, supporting the development of BC’s health policy talent while addressing pressing policy issues in our province.
In 2017, MSFHR made a decision to put its Health Policy Fellowship Program on hold and partner on CIHR’s Health System Impact Fellowship. This allows MSFHR to support more BC Fellows through partnership, reduce duplication in the system, and build capacity for the integration of policy research into decision-making, one of the goals of our Health Policy Fellowship Program.
The successful 2018 recipients include six Fellows co-funded by MSFHR, bringing the total number of Fellows in BC to 13. These researchers are part of a national cohort of 49 individuals based in Ontario (16), BC (13), Quebec (8), Alberta (7), Nova Scotia (3), Saskatchewan (1) and the Northwest Territories (1).
Researcher | Project title | Host partner organization | Academic institution |
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Post-doctoral Fellows | |||
Brittany Barker | Indigenizing harm reduction: Identifying barriers to Western systems and supporting community-driven approaches to reduce opioid-related mortalities among Indigenous people who use drugs in British Columbia | First Nations Health Authority | University of British Columbia |
Sofia Bartlett(MSFHR co-funded) | Utilizing a syndemic approach for population level prevention, care and treatment cascades of hepatitis C virus and related epidemics | BC Centre for Disease Control | University of British Columbia |
Kiffer Card | Harnessing health systems to optimize biomedical prevention for HIV elimination among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Canada | Community-Based Research Centre for Gay Men’s Health | University of Victoria |
Clayon Hamilton(MSFHR co-funded) | Patient/Public Engagement Measurement and Evaluation Project (PEMEP) within the British Columbia Ministry of Health’s Patients as Partners Initiative | BC Ministry of Health | University of British Columbia |
Lindsay Hedden(MSFHR co-funded) | Moving beyond headcounts: improved physician workforce planning for primary care in BC | BC Ministry of Health | Simon Fraser University |
Michael Irvine (MSFHR co-funded) | Measuring the impact of current and future harm reduction strategies in the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic in British Columbia | BC Ministry of Mental Health & Addictions | University of British Columbia |
Asif Khowaja(MSFHR co-funded) | Economic evaluation and cost valuation of a province-wide quality improvement initiative: a case study of ‘Call for Less Antipsychotics in Residential Care’ (CLeAR) in British Columbia | BC Patient Safety & Quality Council | University of British Columbia |
Margo Pearce | Advancing the health and wellness of BC First Nations within the hepatitis C prevention, care, and treatment cascade using integrated clinical and administrative data | BC Centre for Disease Control | University of British Columbia |
Laura Schummers | Population-based epidemiological analyses to evaluate and inform reproductive health policies in British Columbia | BC Ministry of Health | University of British Columbia |
Deepa Singal (MSFHR co-funded) | Supporting a Learning Health System in British Columbia Through Developing the BC Academic Health Sciences Network (AHSN) | BC Academic Health Science Network | University of British Columbia |
PhD Fellows | |||
Sameer Desai | Geographical variation and temporal trends in mortality, morbidity and health care service use for cystic fibrosis patients in British Columbia | BC Ministry of Health | University of British Columbia |
Daman Kandola | Use of emergency health services (EHS) for transporting stroke patients: what is known about when to seek emergency carte and how transport decisions impact in-hospital care | Northern Health | University of Northern British Columbia |
Chantelle Recsky | Analyzing and mitigating technology-mediated adverse events in primary and community care | Vancouver Coastal Health | University of British Columbia |