Newsletter - June 2024

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CIRANO's annual theme will focus on the efficiency of Quebec health care system

For many years, health research at CIRANO has contributed to improving our understanding of the impacts of current and future changes, assessing the impacts of policies put in place, and proposing cutting-edge evaluation methods applied to evidence-based data.

Drawing on the CIRANO research community's expertise in healthcare and other related and complementary fields, several research and knowledge transfer activities will address various aspects of the annual theme “Efficiency at the heart of the Quebec health care system”.

Under the aegis of Health theme main researchers Roxane Borgès Da Silva (Université de Montréal), Pierre-Carl Michaud (HEC Montréal) and Erin Strumpf (McGill University) and the CIRANO Pole on the Efficiency of Health Services and Policies Carl-Ardy Dubois (Université de Montréal), activities for the 2024-2025 theme year will focus on four main areas:

1. Elder care

2. Human resources issues

3. Public health

4. Digital transformation

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Activities and resources related to the annual theme

Several CIRANO researchers and Fellows have unique expertise in the issues to be addressed in 2024-2025, and work in recognized research centers and chairs. Other researchers associated with the Skills theme and the Innovation and Digital Transformation theme will also contribute to the activities of the thematic year.

Various activities related to the annual theme will be organized throughout the year, some of which are already planned.

June 12, 2024 : International Economic Forum of the Americas - Conference of Montreal - CIRANO Panel “The Digitization of Healthcare"

September 9, 2024 : Panel on public health funding in Quebec in collaboration with the École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal (ESPUM)

A series of articles in CIRANO PERSPECTIVES journal will be published during the year to highlight project reports that fall within one or other of the four main research themes of the thematic year. At the end of the year, all these articles will be gathered together and published in a special issue of the journal.

CIRANO NEWS


2024-2025 Research Program
	We are pleased to present the 2024-2025 research program. More than 60 research projects will ne carried out this year in CIRANO's 10 major research themes. CIRANO is also proud to unveil its annual theme for 2024-2025: “Efficiency at the heart of the Quebec health care system”. This theme is at the heart of current issues of interest to the entire society, including our partners. Numerous activities will be organized around this theme throughout the year. Read more

Appointment of two principal researchers and one CIRANO researcher
	CIRANO is proud to announce the appointment of two new principal researchers and one CIRANO researcher. Marie Connolly, Full Professor at ESG UQAM becomes principal researcher for the CREEI initiative, Robert Clark, Professor at Queen's University becomes principal researcher for the Competition theme, and William Arbour, Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal is appointed CIRANO researcher for the Skills and Inequality and Poverty themes. Read more

CIRANO at MAPAQ's 5th annual partners' meeting
	As part of its 2018-2025 biofood policy, the Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ) organized the 5th annual partners' meeting on May 30, 2024 on the theme “Setting the table for the future”. Read more

Awards ceremony for the 37th Bourstad Challenge
	CIRANO organized the awards ceremony for the winners of the 37th Bourstad Challenge on May 22, 2024. The competition ran from February 12 to April 12, 2024. Congratulations to the 2,593 participants and the 66 participating educational institutions for their dedication and the remarkable work carried out during the Bourstad 2024 Challenge. Read more

Private Residences for Seniors in Quebec: Issues and Opportunities
	The new CIRANO report by Mélanie Bourassa Forcier (Université de Sherbrooke, CIRANO), Dereck Dumont and Hugo Prévosto named "Les résidences privées pour aînés (RPA) au Québec : enjeux et opportunités" has received wide media coverage ... Read more

Christian Belzil presented the results of his CIRANO study to various ministries
	On May 22, CIRANO Associate Researcher and Fellow Christian Belzil (Polytechnique Paris) presented the results of his recent research at CIRANO on the determinants of participation in post-secondary education and the choices of fields of study. Read more

OUTREACH


Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin participated in the 2024 summer school at CÉRIUM
	Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin participated in the 2024 summer school at CÉRIUM at the University of Montreal on "Scientific Diplomacy: Practices and Challenges for International Relations," under the direction of Michel Audet, associate professor at HEC Montréal. Read more

Notable CIRANO presence at the Canadian Economics Association conference in Toronto
	CIRANO's research community was represented at the Canadian Economics Association's annual conference in Toronto from May 30 to June 1, 2024. Some forty people took part in the special session, moderated by Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, marking CIRANO's 30th anniversary. Erin Strumpf delivered one of the prestigious State of the Art Lectures, and Robert Clark received the John Rae Award. Read more

Julien Martin and Sophie Bernard publish an article in Policy Options
	Julien Martin, professor at ESG UQAM and CIRANO Fellow, and Sophie Bernard, professor at Polytechnique Montréal and CIRANO Fellow, have published a text in the Options politiques magazine. Read more

Raquel Fonseca receives the Marcel-Dagenais 2024 Award
	ESG UQAM professor, CIRANO Fellow and researcher Raquel Fonseca was awarded the Marcel-Dagenais 2024 prize at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Economics (CSSE) on May 16. Read more

ESG UQAM's CIRANO community pays tribute to three emeritus professors
	In early May, the Chair in Macroeconomics and Forecasting, the Research Chair in Intergenerational Economics and the Economics Department of ESG UQAM organized a colloquium at UQAM in honor of Steve Ambler, Pierre Fortin and Louis Phaneuf, three emeritus professors. Read more

Robert Clark receives John Rae 2024 award
	Robert Clark, Professor at Queen's University, CIRANO Associate Researcher and Fellow, and principal researcher on the Competition theme, was awarded the John Rae Prize. Awarded every two years, the John Rae Prize is given to the Canadian economist who has achieved the best research results over the last five years. Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS

External activity - 30th Conference of Montreal of the International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA)

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

The 30th edition of the Montreal conference of the International Economic Forum of the Americas will seek to tackle key strategic and existential questions concerning: The Energy Transition, The Future of Work, Innovation & Economic Disruption, Supply Chain Security, Geopolitics and Global Health, in the context of the advent of the two greatest catalysts of our time: Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change. CIRANO is a partner for the event.

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External activity: Summer conference on industrial organization

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

The Montreal Summer Conference on Industrial Organization is back for its 11th Edition on June 18 and 19, 2024 at HEC Montreal (Adélaide room - A.414). The event is organized by Robert Clark (Queen's University and CIRANO), Allan Collard-Wexler (Duke University), Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona), Matthew Marcoux (Université de Montréal) and Mario Samano (HEC Montréal and CIRANO) in collaboration with HEC Montreal, CIRANO, the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy (JDI), the Columbia Program for Economic Research, Duke University, and the Rotman Institute for International Business.

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Public Health Funding in Quebec: Trade-offs and Consequences

Monday, September 9, 2024

Epidemiological crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic are affecting health systems in multiple dimensions. In Quebec as elsewhere, this type of major event may have influenced not only total public health expenditures, but also their distribution among the various public health functions. The pandemic may have led to a reallocation of funds by favouring certain expenditure items over others. Organized in collaboration with the École de santé publique de l’Université de Montréal (ESPUM), this panel on public health funding in Quebec will provide a better understanding of decisions and trade-offs in the allocation of expenditures between major public health functions, such as expenditures on emergency and health risk monitoring, health surveillance, health protection, health promotion and disease prevention as well as a better understanding of the consequences of the choices made. This activity of the CIRANO Pole on the Efficiency of Health Services and Policies is part of the activities taking place in the context of the annual theme at CIRANO in 2024-2025 under the theme Efficiency at the heart of the Quebec health care system.

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External activity - International Conference on Immigration

Friday, September 27, 2024

Organized by the Power Corporation of Canada Chair in Employer-Employee Dynamis, Earnings and Benefits, and the Jacques-Parizeau Research Chair in Economic Policy, in partnership with QICSS, CIRANO, CIREQ and the Productivity Partnership, this conference will feature keynote speaker Professor Christian Dustmann of University College London (UCL). Program and inscription to come.

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