Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Systems Design and Adaptation

The Canada Research Chair in Health System Design and Adaptation aimed to study reforms, governance, and the organization and operation of the healthcare system with the goal of enhancing its capacity for innovation and adaptation. The primary objective of the Chair's research program was to understand the key factors and processes involved in the design, implementation, sustainability, and scaling of innovations or changes that have a significant impact on improving healthcare systems. Specifically, the research program of the Chair revolved around three main areas.

• Comparative analysis of healthcare system reforms and transformation capabilities to gain a better understanding of the evolution of reform policies and the challenges and opportunities in the context of healthcare system transformation and improvement.
  
• Examination of the role of healthcare professionals, especially the role of the medical profession in the evolution of healthcare policies and systems, the development of care networks, collaboration among professionals, and the role of healthcare organizations in the context of change and improvement.
• Study of innovation dynamics in the healthcare system, including the role of artificial intelligence and digital innovation in healthcare, the processes of innovation diffusion, and innovation design.

Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy

The general objective of the Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy is to better understand and model the challenge of collaboration within healthcare systems, an issue with concrete and significant repercussions on their viability. In its basic research component, the Chair seeks to deepen understanding of the issues and factors involved in collaboration within healthcare systems. This understanding of cooperation factors has a direct impact on public policy engineering, by enabling social regulation based on a more detailed analysis of the factors that inhibit or promote desired collaboration within the healthcare system. In its applied research component, the Chair incorporates the collaborative model that stems from its fundamental research component through various specific research projects such as: digital innovation (including artificial intelligence); emerging private-public partnerships for financing and delivering care and services; dispute prevention and resolution mechanisms to support collaborative governance; inter-professional, inter-institutional and inter-state collaboration in the healthcare sector.