Past Conferences

Conference 2016 • Fifth Biennial Bilingual Conference May 5 & 6, 2016

University of Ottawa Desmarais Building 55 Laurier Ave, East Ottawa, Ontario

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Keynote Speakers

Patrick Castel

Patrick Castel is a Research fellow at Sciences Po, at the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Paris, France. He is also a member of the Liepp (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies) (Sciences Po). Before joining Sciences Po in January 2007, he worked as research fellow at the Lyons Cancer Center (Centre Léon Bérard) (2002-2006). A theoretical framework, composed of three perspectives, underlies his research: the sociology of organizations, the sociology of health professions, and the sociology of knowledge. Two threads run through his research: on the one hand, the organization of medical activity and the rationalization processes at work, and on the other, design and implementation processes of public policies in the healthcare field. For the former, he focuses particularly on how cancer patients’ treatment is organized, the processes of creating and applying recommendations for clinical practice, and the way clinical and transnational research is organized. Since 2013, he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Cnamts (Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Maladie des Travailleurs Salariés). He is member of the editorial committee of Sciences sociales et santé. He published articles in journals such as Organization science, Social studies of science, Social science & medicine, Revue française de sociologie and Sociologie du travail. With Henri Bergeron, he coauthored Sociologie politique de la santé (2014, Presses universitaires de France)."

Jean-Louis Denis

Jean-Louis Denis is a full professor at the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) and chairman of research of Canada on governance and transformation of healthcare organizations and systems at ENAP. Mr. Denis’s expertise in the field of management and governance of health organizations and systems has been recognized by his nomination as member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Mr. Denis participates in numerous projects and initiatives aiming to improve health systems in Canada and abroad. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Management of the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at the King’s College in London and the director of the Research Centre of Charles-Lemoyne Hospital since the 1st of December 2014.

Conference 2014 • Fourth Biennial Bilingual Conference May 5 & 6, 2014

OMNI Hotel 1050 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC

Keynote Speaker

Gilles Dussault

Gilles Dussault is a Professor at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), Lisbon, Portugal and Coordinator of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Health Workforce Policy and Planning. Before joining IHMT in August 2006, he worked as Senior Health Specialist at the World Bank Institute (Washington D.C.). He was responsible for the Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing” Program in French, Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries. Between 1985 and 2000, he was Professor and Director (1990-91, 1998-2000) of the Department of Health Administration, University of Montreal. Between 1974 and 1985, he was a Professor in the Department of Industrial Relations at University Laval, in Québec. His research interests were the sociology of health professions, the production of health services, and health workforce policies. Since 1986, he has been much involved in international cooperation projects in Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Between 2002 and 2004, he was a member of the Joint Learning Initiative on Human Resources for Health, a landscaping and advocacy major international initiative launched by the Rockefeller Foundation, which published the influential Report Human Resources in Health: Overcoming the Crisis, 2004, (Harvard University Press, www.globalhealthtrust.org). He has been a member of the World Health Organization Global Advisory Group on Nursing and Midwifery and has also participated in various working and advisory groups of this and several other international organizations. In Canada, he chaired international evaluation committees of major research organizations in (Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute- Quebec). He is a member of editorial committees of peer-reviewed journals. He is the author or co-author of 12 books and monographs, more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed and professional journals.

Conference 2012 • Third Biennial Bilingual Conference October 25-27th 2012

The National Hotel and Suites 361 Queen Street, Ottawa, On, K1R 7S9

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Keynote Speakers

Ronald Labonté

Canada Research Chair in Globalization & Health Equity, Institute of Population Health, and Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, at the University of Ottawa. His work over the past 15 years has focused on the health equity impacts of contemporary globalization. He chaired the Globalization Knowledge Network for the World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health; and presently chairs the Working Group on global influences of the European-WHO review of social determinants of health. He has published extensively in academic and popular media. Recent books include the edited collection Major Works in Global Health (Sage); Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy (Routledge); Health Promotion in Action: From Local to Global Empowerment (Macmillan); Critical Perspective in Public Health (Routledge); and Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health (University of Cape Town Press/IDRC Books). Prior to his research and academic career, he worked 10 years as international health promotion and public health consultant, and 15 years with provincial and local governments and NGOs in community health development.

Thomas Abel

Professor for Health Research at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is also past Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Public Health. He has served as reviewer and consultant for major national and international research institutions and funding agencies. Prior to his Habilitation at the Philipps-University (Dep. of Medicine, 1993), Thomas Abel received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois (Dep. of Sociology) in 1989, a Dr. phil. degree from the Justus Liebig- University (Dep. of Sports Science) in 1984, and, also there, his M.A. degree in 1980. Today, his major focus in research and teaching is on the role of social, cultural and economic resources in the reproduction of health inequalities.