As a leader of independent, policy relevant research and graduate training, UBC’s Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) is dedicated to fostering visionary research within a collaborative and innovative research environment. Our work engages and informs health policy on issues that matter to Canadians.

Recent Publications

Guo M, Mourad N, Karimuddin A, Sutherland JM. A population-based exploration of immigrants undergoing general surgery procedures in British Columbia: Do immigrants present for emergency surgeries more than non-immigrants? Health Policy. 2025 Aug 5;161:105410. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105410. Online ahead of print. Read more

Hosseini B, Condon A, da Costa BR, Daley P, Greiver M, Jüni P, Lee TC, McBrien K, McDonald EG, Murthy S, et al. Canadian Adaptive Platform Trial of Treatments for COVID in Community Settings (CanTreatCOVID): protocol for a randomised controlled adaptive platform trial of treatments for acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in community settings. BMJ Open. 2025 Aug 3;15(8):e097134. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097134. Read more

Ding X, Marchand K, Holsti L, Schmidt J, Parde N, Sakakibara B, Barbic S. Unlocking mobile health adoption: A qualitative exploration of user experiences, barriers, and facilitators within integrated youth services in British Columbia, Canada. Digit Health. 2025 Aug 3;11:20552076251365073. doi: 10.1177/20552076251365073. eCollection 2025 Jan-Dec. Read more

Schummers L, Cheng L, Odendaal M, Rodriguez-Llorian E, Kuo IF, Norman WV, Black A, Stucchi A, Helmer-Smith M, Nethery E, Downey A, Guindon GE, McGrail K, Brennand EA, Lee S, Metcalfe A, Bryan S, Darling EK, Bertazzon S, Poliquin V, Nickel NC, Clement F, Law MR. Effect of universal no-cost coverage on use of long-acting reversible contraception and all prescription contraception: population based, controlled, interrupted time series analysis. BMJ. 2025 Jul 28;390:e083874. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-083874. Read more

Punian J, Ehman M, Weymann D, Regier DA. A scoping review of the cost-effectiveness of precision treatment in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Per Med. 2025 Jul 23:1-11. doi: 10.1080/17410541.2025.2535276. Online ahead of print. Read more

Trenaman L, Guh D, Bryan S, McGrail K, Karim ME, Sawatzky R, Yu M, Parker M, Wheeler K, Harrison M. Can patient-reported data improve predictions about who will be a high-need, high-cost patient in British Columbia? Qual Life Res. 2025 Jul 9. doi: 10.1007/s11136-025-04008-8. Online ahead of print. Read more

Dhillon S, Leung B, Sanghera D, Sattar S, Culbertson S, Hedges P, Renouf DJ, Wong ST, Newton L, Mariano C, Haase KR. A patient co-led project to set care and research priorities for older adults with cancer. J Geriatr Oncol. 2025 Jun 28;16(7):102300. doi: 10.1016/j.jgo.2025.102300. Online ahead of print. Read more

Nisingizwe MP, Tadrous M, Janjua NZ, Bansback N, Hedt-Gauthier B, Suda KJ, Law MR. Global disparities in access to hepatitis C medicines before and during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: an ARIMA-based interrupted time series analysis. BMJ Public Health. 2025 Jun 25;3(1):e001340. doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001340. eCollection 2025. Read more

Yusuf FLA, Karim ME, Sutherland JM, Zhu F, Zhao Y, Marrie RA, Tremlett H. Heterogeneity in health care pathways preceding the classical recognition of adult-onset multiple sclerosis: A multichannel state sequence analysis. Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2025 Jun 25;102:106595. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2025.106595. Online ahead of print. Read more

Bird J, Tobias S, Grant C, Lysyshyn M, Tupper K, Wood E, Kerr T, Ti L. Sharing drug checking results in a Canadian setting: a multi-site analysis. Int J Drug Policy. 2025 Jun 24;143:104903. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104903. Online ahead of print. Read more

Hedden L, Grudniewicz A, Katz A, Lavergne MR, McDonald T, Rudoler D, Austin N, Halas G, Spencer S, Thelen R, Mathews M, McCracken R, McGrail K, Shiplett H, Strumpf EC. Informing family physician payment reform in Canada: protocol for a cross-provincial, multimethod study. BMJ Open. 2025 Jun 20;15(6):e103894. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-103894. Read more

Bond M, Beresford A, Noonan V, Rotem-Kohavi N, Dvorak M, Kwon B, Liu G, Sutherland JM. Long-Term Survival for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in British Columbia, Canada: A Retrospective Evaluation of 20 Years of Linked Health Care Data. Neurotrauma Rep. 2025 Jun 16;6(1):551-559. doi: 10.1089/neur.2025.0057. eCollection 2025. Read more

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