Entries by Rebecca Mercer

CCSRI Travel Award – Apply by May 15

Program description A limited number of Travel Awards to PhD or MD/PhD students, and post-doctoral/medical/clinical fellows are available. The purpose of this program is to defray the travel costs associated with making a scientific presentation as a first author or presenter at a conference, symposium or other appropriate professional meeting. (more…)

IHE Health Economist Position

Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Date of Posting: March 7, 2016 Deadline for Application: April 30th, 2016 Note: Contract or permanent position Purpose: The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) is seeking an experienced health economist to support economic evaluations and studies being conducted for a variety of stakeholders.  IHE is a (more…)

Webinars live from the 2016 CADTH Symposium

The CADTH Symposium is an annual event that brings together producers and users of evidence-based information on drugs and health technologies for productive discussions and information sharing. These free webinars are presented live from the 2016 CADTH Symposium in Ottawa, Ontario. Webinar Topics Include: Oral Presentations on Patient and Public (more…)

Pharmacare Costing in Canada: Estimated Costs of Proposed National Pharmacare Programs Commissioned by the Canadian Pharmacists Association

The Canadian Pharmacists Association has commissioned a report to look at estimated costs of a national Pharmacare program in Canada. Their findings suggest that existing proposals are impractical, disruptive, and the potential for cost savings is overstated. Specific concerns from the report suggest that the existing proposals: replace the increasingly effective (more…)

Call for Applications For The Position of Scientific Secretary to the HTAi Policy Forum, 2016-17

Deadline: April 3, 2016 To submit an application and for all inquiries, contact: HTAiPF@southampton.ac.uk  1. Overview of HTAi (www.htai.org ) Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) is the global scientific and professional society for all those who produce, use, or encounter Health Technology Assessment (HTA). Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi) embraces (more…)