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Friday, May 19, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thursday, May 5, 2022
By Ellen Tsaprailis The multiple waves of COVID-19 has diverted considerable health-care resources away from patients who are dealing with chronic diseases since the spring of 2020. Canadians who are trying to overcome or manage diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes use a fair amount of health-care resources. The past two years... More
Friday, February 4, 2022
The School of Public Policy and Administration is pleased to announce that it will host, in coordination with the Department of Economics, the Faculty of Public Affairs and in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, the 20th Canadian Health Economists Study Group (CHESG) conference on June 1 and 2, 2022. CHESG is the main... More
Monday, December 20, 2021
From new research funding to teaching awards to timely events, there are many reasons to celebrate the outstanding efforts of everyone in the Faculty of Public Affairs (FPA) this year. While we faced many challenges, 2021 also presented new opportunities, which were embraced by the faculty, staff and students within FPA. What follows is... More
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, along with Emmanuelle Arpin and Sara Allin, recently published a peer-reviewed journal article titled, "Interpreting forty-three-year trends of expenditures on public health in Canada: Long-run trends, temporal periods, and data differences" in Health Policy. This work is part of Canadian Institutes of Health... More
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
By Tyrone Burke An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, or at least that’s how the saying goes. When it comes to preventive health care, there is no precise measure of the return on investment. Public health makes up a relatively small percentage of overall health-care spending, but how much money... More
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