Professor, School of Public Health Sciences (SPHS)
University of Waterloo
Professor Hirdes is the senior Canadian fellow and a board member of interRAI, an international consortium of researchers from over 30 countries. He chairs interRAI's international Network of Excellence in Mental Health and the interRAI Network of Canada, a collaborative network of researchers and graduate students from across Canada. He is a member of the interRAI committee that produced the new suite of instruments and care planning protocols, and he led development of several interRAI instruments for mental health and community-based screening.
He has more than 130 publications in peer reviewed journals and academic book chapters. His primary areas of interest include geriatric assessment, mental health, health care and service delivery, case mix systems, quality, health information management, social determinants of health, and quantitative research methods.
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