The Institute of Health Economics (IHE), in partnership with the Network of Alberta Health Economists (NOAHE) and Alberta Health, is delighted to co-host an invitational luncheon series that will serve to provide an applied orientation to health economic evaluation. The objective of this series is to help policy makers develop the skills required to better translate and interpret health economic findings.
Session 3 – 21 November 2016: Measuring Health Outcomes
Dr. Johnson will describe patient reported outcomes (PRO). He will provide conceptual information around this method, and then go through the process of conducting and analyzing PRO research.
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Health care has taken tremendous strides in recent decades. So has technology. And so has the data available to researchers. Professor and researcher Ronda Hughes is bringing these pieces together to keep us healthy before and after we leave the hospital. By working with big data to gain a fuller picture of what we know about specific patients, Hughes is giving clinicians and health care systems the right tools to improve health care in ways never before possible. Ronda Hughes is an expert in health policy and health services research. Her interest areas include: patient safety and quality improvement, big data research, health care administration, health systems and policy and program evaluation, among others. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Video Rating: / 5
This month’s webinar featured Daren Mueller, Associate Professor and Extension Plant Pathologist at Iowa State University. Mueller explored how climate change and changing management practices can affect corn and soybean diseases.
In this section of the Field Scouting Basics Workshop, extension program specialist Ed Zaworski provides insight into scouting for crop diseases including where to look, when to start looking for specific diseases, and what symptoms to look for. Learn about injury symptoms and disorders that may be confused with common diseases.
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What have we learned from past pandemics? What have we learned from SARS in 2001, Ebola 2014 and finally the ongoing COVID-19 pandemics? Is the international community and individual countries prepared for the next pandemics? What are health security challenges of the future and how can we prepare to deal with them? Are we finally ready for what is to come in the area of health security? These are the questions the panel of experts will try to answer and engage with the public on.
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Our Speakers:
Dr Gilles Poumerol
International public health specialist. He worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) for 30 years in various capacities at country, regional, and global level. He has extensive experience in the Caribbean, in Asia, in the Pacific, and in Africa on the epidemiology and control of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis. In the past 10 years he was in charge of International Travel and Health (ITH) and the revised International Health Regulations (IHR). He is presently consultant for IHR and Global Health Security trainings. Dr Poumerol received his MD from the University of Paris in 1981, his Masters of Science in community health in developing countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1987, and diplomas in tropical medicine and epidemiology from the University of Paris.
Professor David L. Heymann
Medical Epidemiologist and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. David Heymann is a medical epidemiologist and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM. From 1989 to 2009 he held various leadership positions in infectious diseases at WHO, and in 2003 headed the WHO global response to SARS in his role as executive director of communicable diseases. In 1976, after spending two years working in India on smallpox eradication, Heymann was a member of the CDC (Atlanta) team to investigate the first Ebola outbreak in DRC and stayed on in sub-Saharan Africa for 13 years in various field research positions on Ebola, monkeypox, Lassa Fever, malaria and other tropical diseases. Heymann has published over 250 peer reviewed articles and book chapters, is editor of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, and is an elected member of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the US National Academy of Medicine.
Professor David Freedman
David O. Freedman, MD, FASTMH, FIDSA, FISTM—Founding Director, Travelers’ Health Clinic; Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Founding Director, Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine, Lima, Peru; Past President, Clinical Group, American
Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH); Co-Editor, Textbook of Travel Medicine Editions 1-3; Associate Editor, Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal; Section Editor, Journal of Travel Medicine. Dr. Freedman currently serves as Managing Senior Director, Shoreland Travax. He was Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) from 2005-13. During the 2016 Zika epidemic he served as one of 12 members of the World Health Organization International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee on Zika. From 1995-2000 he served as Chair of the Expert Committee on Antiparasitic Drugs for the US Pharmacopeia. For 18 years until 2013 he was Director of the global GeoSentinel Surveillance Network which he co-founded and which currently maintains the largest database of ill travelers available.
