Recognizing emerging health services and policy researchers
The CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR) announced this week that Waterloo PhD candidate Chi-Ling Joanna Sinn has received the 2016 CIHR-IHSPR Rising Star Award.
The Rising Star Award review committee selected this year’s winners for their excellence in research and/or knowledge translation, the innovation of their work and the potential impact of their work within the field of health services and policy research.
Watch a brief outline of Joanna's research in her Three-Minute Thesis presentation.
In addition to receiving an award of $1,000 and a certificate of excellence, the recipients were honoured at the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference, held in Toronto in May 2016.
Chi-Ling Joanna Sinn is a PhD candidate in the collaborative Aging, Health, and Well-being program at the School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo. As part of her training, she is an academic secondee within the Decision Support portfolio of the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Community Care Access Centre.
Her areas of research include care transitions, resource allocation, and quality improvement. She is the lead developer of the Personal Support algorithm that provides a framework for allocating personal support services in home and community care that is evidence-informed, patient-centred, and consistent across Ontario. Her dissertation will use the interRAI Contact Assessment, which is a brief standardized clinical assessment for persons who seek home care services in Ontario. While her research has typically focused on persons who receive long-term home care services, Joanna is interested in understanding the needs of persons who are admitted or not, and those who require services for a short period of time. She hopes her dissertation will provide evidence on how health care organizations and decision makers can better enable persons to live and thrive in the community.
She is supported by a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Source: Canadian Institutes of Health Research