Better data. Better decisions. Healthier Canadians
How do we leverage national health data to achieve better health outcomes?
Waterloo faculty members, staff and students are invited to the health data seminar to learn about opportunities to improve your access to health data at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Brent Diverty, vice president, Data Strategies and Statistics, will introduce the important and rich information available at CIHI, share progress being made in Canada towards better health data, and discuss working with CIHI data as a researcher or partner.
When: Thursday, February 8, 2024 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Where: Enterprise Theatre, East Campus 5 (EC5), Room 1111
Please register below to attend.
Since 1994, as an independent organization funded by Federal-Provincial-Territorial (FPT) governments across Canada, CIHI has played a unique role in Canada’s health sector. It collects, analyzes, and publishes comparable health system data in support of health policy and health system decision making. CIHI maintains 30 critical pan-Canadian databases that contribute, along with other data suppliers such as Statistics Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada, to improving the depth and breadth of Canada’s health data ecosystem.
Both CIHI’s role and the needs of its stakeholders are evolving in response to the rapidly evolving environment. Through strategic, analytic and information quality plans, CIHI has created the blueprints to address key data and information issues and challenges facing Canada’s health care systems. As CIHI continues to progress through its strategic goals, modernizing health data systems, embracing the promise of AI and advancing our analytic capability are at the forefront.
CIHI collaborates with governments, health systems, clinicians, researchers and increasingly the private sector to achieve its vision of Better Data, Better Decisions, Healthier Canadians, and is a vital source of data for health-related research in Canada and internationally.
Brent Diverty, Vice-President, Data Strategies and Statistics, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
About the speaker:
Brent Diverty is the Vice-President, Data Strategies and Statistics at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). In this role, he oversees CIHI’s extensive data holdings, which span the continuum of health care services and contain related financial, pharmaceutical and workforce data. He also has executive responsibility for CIHI’s strategic data initiatives, including work and partnerships to advance new data acquisitions, linkages, improving access and health system use of data as well as CIHI’s data governance portfolio.
Brent is an active member of a number of pan-Canadian and international health information initiatives including Health Data Research Network (HDRN) Canada, the Supply Chain Advancement Network for Health (SCAN-H), and a past member of a number of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) health-related working groups. In 2014-15, he served on the Council of Canadian Academies expert panel, Timely Access to Health and Social Data for Health Research and Health System Innovation.
Previously Brent worked for several years in management consulting, in various roles at Statistics Canada and as a Director at CIHI. Brent also spent 2 years as part of the executive team at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in Canberra, where he provided strategic leadership to a diverse portfolio of health and welfare data and information programs. Brent has an M.A. in Economics from McMaster University, with a specialization in health. He currently is a Board Director for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada.