Farr seminar
21 July 2016, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Event Information
Open to
- All
Location
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Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research
Speaker 1: Professor Brendan Delaney, Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College London
Title: ‘TRANSFoRM project-developing the technology for learning health systems’
Speaker 2: Astrid Guttmann, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), Health System Planning & Evaluation Research Program, Canada
Title: 'Leveraging Linkages of Healthcare and Immigration Data for Health and Social Policy Research'
Astrid Guttmann is a Senior Scientist and the Chief Science Officer at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, an Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and a General Paediatrician and Senior Associate Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children. She holds an Applied Chair in Child Health Services and Policy Research from the Canadian Institute for Health Research. Her research interests include health system performance reporting and policy evaluation related to children and youth, immigrant health, and methods to use large, linked administrative data to inform policy and clinical care. She sits on a number of policy advisory committees including the Ontario Provincial Council on Maternal and Child Health.
Where: Room G01, Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, 222 Euston Road, London NW1 2DA