Archives: Health & Social Policy

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Marc-André Gagnon: What did the scientific literature learn from internal company documents in the pharmaceutical industry? A scoping review

  Marc-André Gagnon and Miaoran Dong's paper "What did the scientific literature learn from internal company documents in the pharmaceutical industry? A scoping review" was published in Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, Vol 1, Issue 3, May 2023, https://doi/.org/10.1002/cesm.12011  Abstract Objective To identify all scientific papers... 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

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Christopher Stoney: Policy-making, policy-taking, and policy-shaping: Local government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

  We are pleased to share a final paper of the late SPPA Professor Christopher Stoney "Policy-making, policy-taking, and policy-shaping: Local government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic"  published posthumously in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, March 30, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12585 . It is a timely paper... 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

Thursday, February 9, 2023

Marc-André Gagnon: Reconsidering Pharmaceutical Research and Development Investments

SPPA Associate Professor Marc-André Gagnon published Commentary: Reconsidering Pharmaceutical Research and Development Investments  in Healthcare Policy, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 25-30, February 2023.  ISSN 17156572 DOI 10.12927/HCPOL.2023.27037 Abstract Following Lee and colleagues' (2023) article explaining how Canadians are being... More

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