This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Dr. William Ghali explores the dimensions and trade-offs of our health care system, compares the Canadian model to US health care system and other global healthcare systems, ultimately pushing us to examine the elements behind good health care that are universal.
Dr. William Ghali, MD, MPH, is the Scientific Director of the O’Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary. He is also a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, and a practicing physician specialized in Internal Medicine.
He conducts health services research and his work focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to evaluating and improving health system performance to produce better patient outcomes and improved system efficiency. He leads or co-leads three inter-related research and innovation initiatives: the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH); the Ward of the 21st Century initiative (W21C); and International Methodology Consortium for Coded Health Information (IMECCHI), with strong linkages to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dr. Ghali has has published over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals. In April 2012, The Globe and Mail named his as the Canadian public health researcher with the highest publication H-index, a bibliometric measure of publication impact. He recently completed two terms as a Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research.
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