Archives: Mehdi Ammi

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

The impact of sense of belonging on health: Canadian evidence

High-income countries are increasingly described as experiencing a growing sense of detachment. But does belonging matter? Abstract In their new paper, SPPA Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, Adjunct Research Professor Antoine Dedewanou and MPPA alumni Ian Allan demonstrate that belonging matters a lot for health. In fact, they show that a stronger... More

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Mehdi Ammi: Political determinants of COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine rollouts: the case of regional elections in Italy and Spain

Political decisions have played a key role in the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the topic of a new paper by Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi and colleagues from Europe and Australia. Their paper investigates how political variables such as election and ideology affected the severity of the policy restrictions and the efficiency... More

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Mehdi Ammi: Non-pharmaceutical interventions and vaccination during COVID-19 in Canada

New paper from SPPA Associate Professor and lead author, Mehdi Ammi looks at COVID-19 policies and outcomes such as deaths, hospitalizations and ICU admissions across Canada,  and the relationship between non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and COVID vaccine coverage. The study, which found varying experiences across provinces, suggests the... More

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Mehdi Ammi and Antoine Dedewanou on the value of public health expenditures in Social Science & Medicine

Public health operates in the shadow. Surveilling and preventing disease, as well as promoting and protecting health are the missions of public health, but these missions result in outcomes mostly unobserved: diseases and deaths that are avoided. For these reasons, only a small fraction of health expenditures is allocated to public health.... More

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Mehdi Ammi examines the impact of doctors personalities on patient care

As part of our celebration of 80 years of Public Administration, we are sharing Research Summaries each month highlighting some of SPPA’s broad-ranging research. Here is this month’s Research Summary: Personality differences between doctors and patients can affect treatment outcomes. Through an observational study using two nationally... More

Friday, May 19, 2023

SPPA receives three FPA Excellence Awards

FPA Excellence Award Winners 2023 The Faculty of Public Affairs announced its annual excellence awards on May 16, 2023 . “These awards recognize the outstanding contributions of FPA faculty members, staff and instructors in the areas of education, research and outreach,” said Brenda O’Neill, Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs. “We are... More

Friday, May 5, 2023

Mehdi Ammi: $500,000 New Frontiers in Research Fund on Modelling Pandemics

Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi is a co-principal investigator on a new $500,000 New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) focused on improving the modelling of COVID-19 pandemic and its recovery, and more generally uncertainty quantification for pandemics. This interdisciplinary, high-risk/high-reward and fast-breaking research project is led by... More

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Mehdi Ammi: How Does Medical Doctors’ Personality Compare to Patients and Highly Educated Workers?

  Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, jointly with colleagues from the University of Queensland (Jonas Fooken) and the University of Melbourne (Jill Klein and Tony Scott), recently published a peer-reviewed article titled “Does doctors’ personality differ from those of patients, the highly educated and other caring professions? An... More

Monday, April 3, 2023

Mehdi Ammi: Political and Fiscal Determinants of Expenditures on Public Health

Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, jointly with political scientists Olivier Jacques and Alain Noël from Université de Montréal and health services researcher Emmanuelle Arpin from the University of Toronto, recently published a peer-reviewed article titled “The political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures:... More

Monday, March 27, 2023

Mehdi Ammi and Antoine Dedewanou: Priorities for Public Health Systems / Representativeness of Primary Care Surveys

                      Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi and Adjunct Research Professor Antoine Dedewanou, jointly with colleagues from the University of Toronto and McGill University, recently published a peer-reviewed article titled “Prioritization of public health financing, organization, and... More

Monday, December 19, 2022

Prof. Mehdi Ammi Appointed to the IHEA Board of Directors as the CHEA Nominated Director

The International Health Economics Association (IHEA)’s Board of Directors includes directors elected by IHEA members and directors nominated by regional health economics associations. Elections for the Board, and for the new President, take place every two years; the next election will be held in late 2023. SPPA Prof. Mehdi Ammi will begin his... More

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

SPPA Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow Farzaneh Davarzani

The School of Public Policy and Administration is pleased to welcome Farzaneh Davarzani as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Davarzani joined in August 2022, working with Professor Mehdi Ammi on his CIHR grant on “Public Health Finance.” Her specialization is in quantitative economics, international economics, public health and applied econometrics.... More

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