The Price of Care: Productivity, Value and Canada’s Healthcare Future
April 5-6, 2027 | UBC Vancouver Campus or Virtual
CHSPR will hold its 39th annual health policy conference April 5-6, 2027 at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre on the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus. This long-standing Canadian health policy conference promotes debate and discussion on timely issues facing health systems in Canada.
The 2027 conference will engage attendees in policy debates associated with productivity in Canadian healthcare. Speakers will examine the impact of policies associated with improving healthcare productivity, including healthcare services and technology innovation for Canada’s aging population; allocative efficiency policies between sectors and provider groups; comparisons between jurisdictions’ policies; labour substitution policies; cost-shifting; and the intersection between private and public insurance programs.
International and domestic speakers will share their latest results, insights, and policy analyses. The audience will be encouraged to examine policies through the lenses of improving health, effectiveness of spending, value to the system and patient, and equity. The conference will include participants from diverse groups from across the country and representation from public and private healthcare policymakers, academics, providers, patients, trainees, and national and provincial organizations.
Calls for workshop proposals and poster abstracts are open.
Scientific Program Committee
Jason Sutherland, UBC Professor in Health Services and Policy (chair)
Julia Abelson, Professor, McMaster University
Damineh Akhavan, Patient Partner
Katelynn Kowalchuk, PhD Candidate, Political Science, UBC
Kirsten Marchand, Assistant Professor, CHSPR
John Sproule, Senior Policy Director, Institute for Health Economics
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