Health Inc Series – Seminar #3: Regulating corporations: The interface between corporations and the public sector
Corporate activities including research, development, manufacturing, marketing, advertising, and sales are typically regulated, though the regulatory processes and requirements differ across jurisdictions. This is even more the case for corporations which manufacture health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, or products that may be harmful to health, such as tobacco and alcohol....
Biostatistics Seminar Series with Dr. Meg Short on Microbiome Power Calculation
The Biostatistics Seminar Series presents: “Power and Sample Size Calculation for Microbiome Epidemiology” by Dr. Meg Short, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Abstract: Accurately assessing relationships between statistical power, sample size, and effect size is critical for good study design, particularly with respect to complex human populations and...
Canada’s COP26 Health Programme Commitment – What’s Next?
Canada signed onto the WHO’s #COP26 Health Programme, thus formally committing to climate resilient and low carbon, sustainable health systems. Now what? Speakers Dr. Courtney Howard and Dr. Nick Watts have the insiders’ perspective on what this commitment means for Canada. Dr. Howard was instrumental in the movement to encourage...
Medical Negligence in Gynecological Surgery
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Seminar Series 2021-22 Speaker: Nicholas Leyland, BASc, MD, MHCM, FRCSC, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Fellowship Director, Advanced Pelvic, Obstetrical and Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, McMaster University Seminar Objectives: 1. Understand the elements of medical negligence. 2. Medical...
Evaluating the Toronto Region Hospitals COVID-19 Visitor Policy Using an Accountability for Reasonableness Framework
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Seminar Series 2021-22 Speaker: Vivian Tam, MD, MSc, CCFP(EM) candidate, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa About this Seminar: In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the introduction of visitor restrictions to acute care hospitals in Ontario, Canada, which remain in evolution...
CSPHP Rounds: Public Health Policy in the Age of Racial Reckoning: Promoting Health and Wellbeing for Black Communities in Canada
Join us for the Collaborative Specialization in Public Health Policy Rounds – open to all. For a Zoom link please email publichealthpolicy@utoronto.ca. While the foundations of public health are rooted in promoting health equity, it is clear that these foundations are not promoting meaningful success for Black communities. In 2020...
CSPHP Rounds: Notisha Massaquoi
Join us for the Collaborative Specialization in Public Health Policy Rounds - open to all. For a Zoom link please email publichealthpolicy@utoronto.ca.
CVPD Seminar – An equity-focused evaluation of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout plans proposed by six Canadian provinces
Special note: This seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the link and password two hours before the seminar. Please note that space is limited. This seminar is co-hosted with the Global Public Health and Health Systems Improvement through Implementation Science Cluster at the Dalla Lana School...
CVPD Seminar – Dr. Gebremedhin Gebretekle
Special note: This seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the link and password two hours before the seminar. Please note that space is limited. Speaker: Dr. Gebremedhin Gebretekle, Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Services Research (HTA stream), Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Dalla Lana School of Public...
CVPD Seminar – Salma Sheikh-Mohamed
Special note: This seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the link and password two hours before the seminar. Please note that space is limited. Speaker: Salma Sheikh-Mohamed, PhD student, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto Title: TBC Speaker Bio: Salma is a second-year PhD student in...