Epidemiological crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the precarious nature of public health investments. In Quebec, health promotion, disease prevention and ongoing surveillance of the health status of the population have been relegated to the back burner during the pandemic. While necessary, efforts to monitor emergencies and health risks and protect health have been at the expense of other public health actions. This could have had deleterious effects on population health.

Addressing epidemiological crises: yes, but at what cost? That's the question addressed by the authors of a recent CIRANO study.

Read the CIRANO study

On September 11, join us at the ESPUM Agora to discuss decisions and trade-offs in the allocation of expenditures between major public health functions so as to better understand the consequences of the choices that are made. The authors, Mehdi Ammi (Carleton University, CIRANO) and Erin Strumpf (McGill University, CIRANO), will present the analyses and conclusions of their recent CIRANO report.

Following this presentation, a panel composed of Dr. Luc Boileau, National Director of Public Health and Assistant Deputy Minister at the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, Olivier Jacques (Université de Montréal, CIRANO) and Thomas Bastien, Director General of the Association pour la santé publique du Québec (ASPQ), moderated by Roxane Borgès Da Silva (Université de Montréal, CIRANO) and Carl-Ardy Dubois (Université de Montréal, CIRANO), will comment on these issues.

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