Archives: Faculty and Instructors

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

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Nathan Grasse: Gender pay gap for executives of US charities

SPPA Associate Professor Nathan Grasse has co-authored a new study focusing on the gender pay gap affecting two types of female executives in US charities: executive directors and chief financial officers. It uses a novel identification strategy focused on executive hires to measure the ipay differences created by effects that are... More

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Alexandra Mallett speaks to CBC Sudbury on climate action

SPPA Associate Professor and Graduate Supervisor – MPP in Sustainable Energy and the Environment,  Alexandra Mallett speaks to CBC Sudbury about climate action at the municipal level. City of Greater Sudbury declared a climate emergency 5 years ago. It's not on track to meet its goals Northern Ontario city set a goal to reduce... More

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Parisa Vafaie & Anna Kopec: Questions persist as Ottawa prepares Citizenship Act amendments

In their recent publication, Questions persist as Ottawa prepares Citizenship Act amendments, MPPA student Parisa Vafaie and Assistant Professor Anna Kopec argue questions remain and more transparency is needed as Ottawa prepares amendments to the Citizenship Act. Overlooked for too long, more than 3,500 stateless people without access to... More

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Susan Phillips receives FPA Excellence Award

SPPA Professor Susan Phillips was awarded the 2024 FPA Community Engagement Excellence Award at a special awards luncheon on Monday, May 13th by the Faculty of Public Affairs. The FPA Community Engagement Excellence Award recognizes FPA faculty members who have made an exceptional contribution to building or strengthening institutional... More

Thursday, May 9, 2024

“Seeking Social Democracy” is shortlisted for the Dafoe Book Prize

"Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality" by Ed Broadbent co-authored with SPPA's Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas, and Luke Savage, was announced on May 9 on the shortlist for the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize. The prize memorializes John Wesley Dafoe, one of the most significant Canadian editors of the 20th... More

Monday, April 15, 2024

Anna Kopec examines how homelessness policies interact to influence political participation

In her new paper, SPPA's Anna Kopec considers how policy characteristics interact to influence the political participation of individuals experiencing homelessness in two cases: Toronto and Melbourne. Drawing on over 100 qualitative interviews Kopec offers important theoretical contributions to policy feedback theory and our understanding of how... More

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Marc-André Gagnon’s new paper underscores institutional limitations in reporting and publication of drug trial results in Canada

SPPA Associate Professor Marc-André Gagnon is co-author, with Joel Lexchin and Carleton students Bleu Miraoran Dong and Aravind Ramanathan, on a recent paper published in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) that underscore the existing institutional limitations in ensuring comprehensive reporting and publication of... More

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Marc-André Gagnon – Current Priorities in Health Research Agendas

SPPA Associate Professor Marc-André Gagnon is co-editor of a special issue of Frontiers in Medicine on research topic: Current priorities in health research agendas: tensions between public and commercial interests in prioritizing biomedical, social, and environmental aspects of health.  This thought-provoking collection of manuscripts includes... More

Monday, April 8, 2024

Sounding the Alarm : Advocating for Whistleblower Rights in Canada

“Whistleblowing is a mechanism for accountability. It tells you who is responsible for issues, and who should fix them"  - Paloma Raggo, Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and Director of the Charity Insights Canada Project By Ty Burke Whistleblowers shed light on problems that would otherwise remain in the shadows, alerting... More

Friday, March 15, 2024

Angela Merriam – Teaching Innovation Grant Recipient

We are proud to share that SPPA Instructor Angela Merriam has received the Contract Instructor Teaching Innovation Grant, one the 2024 CU Achievement Awards, in recognition of excellence in her teaching. This award provides support to a Contract Instructor for investigating student learning and alternative approaches to teaching and assessing... 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

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