Our ASI, Area of Strategic Impact,
is in Health Systems Innovations and Management.
As a group we are all focused on addressing
local and international health care challenges.
We don't just focus on research
we are also very interested
in conducting really high quality teaching
and mentorship through the supervision of graduate students.
One of the things that I really like about the Health ASI in particular
is we have a wide range of people doing a wide range of research.
We have people like Agnes, like Ivy Bourgeault who are doing qualitative research
on policy, health policy, or mixed methods.
Then on the other hand you have people like myself and Antoine Sauré
who are doing more quantitative analysis, operations management of health care.
Our research is about health care systems, health care innovation, health care management.
Health care is important to everyone.
It affects every single person whether directly or indirectly.
Our work aims to improve the health of Canadians
and the health of people internationally.
So that's how it has impact. It's truly something that affects everyone.
One example of how we're working with community organizations
is my graduate student Madeline King.
She's doing her thesis on the idea of continuity of care
in a long-term care center.
Perley Rideau has recently implemented a new program
called the See Me program.
So Madeline is going into that organization
she's going to be speaking with senior executives, care providers
such as physicians and nurses. As well as actual clients
to better understand what factors support continuous care.
Another graduate student that we have, Raphaël
who's conducting research under the supervision of Dr. Lysanne Lessard,
she is an expert in health informatics,
as well as Dr. Antoine Sauré who's an expert in advanced health analytics.
They're both supervising Raphaël
who's conducting a project in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry
and the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).
And, how do we use data to select better treatments
that are really aligned with the goals of the children and their families.
Kevin Brand is another professor here.
He works in health risk management and health economics, a little bit.
One of the things he's really interested in, is population health
and how we measure the impacts of population health.
One of the things he's doing is figuring out how this measure is related to this other measure
even though they seem to be completely different.
So he's helping to improve how we understand the impacts of policy on health population.
Jonathan mentioned earlier that we're all very different as researchers
within the ASI and while that can be seen as a disadvantage
it's also an advantage because we're able to do interdisciplinary research
that then gets better results.
So that's part of the mission of our ASI,
is to partner in order to create impact.