Fadi El-Jardali to discuss governance of health systems in Middle East countries

March 12, 2011 - Fadi El-Jardali, a Visiting Leader with the McMaster Health Forum, will discuss efforts to improve the use of evidence in the governance of health systems in countries of the Middle East at the CHEPA monthly seminar on Wednesday, March 16.

An assistant professor of health policy at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, El-Jardali is completing his third visit with the Forum, during which he has been assisting with preparations for a planned stakeholder dialogue on advanced practice nursing, and teaching in the Health Policy 711 seminar course for Health Policy PhD students.

At the CHEPA seminar, he will provide insights gained through an ongoing research project entitled Toward Evidence Informed Policies in the Middle East Region.

The seminar, entitled Staying on Target with the Evidence Informed Policy Agenda in the Middle East Region: Essentials, Progress, Challenges and Midway Lessons, will provide an overview of the research project that aims to strengthen health policymaking by identifying priorities and assessing the policymaking process, the use of health system evidence in policy and the overall research production. The project also aims to develop increased capacity for knowledge translation platforms in countries of the region.

El-Jardali will reflect on the midway lessons for developing knowledge translation platforms in Middle East countries, by discussing the progress, and examining the results and overall challenges revealed in the research study to date.

The seminar will take place from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., in CRL-B119. All are welcome to attend. For those who are unable to attend, you can listen to the seminar remotely through Elluminate. Click here at the time of the seminar to log in. No password is required.

El-Jardali is an evidence-to-policy fellow on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Knowledge-Translation Platforms in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. He is founding member of the Middle East and North Africa Health Policy Forum and a member of its board. He is a research program director of the Research, Advocacy and Public Policy (RAPP) program in the Arab World at Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs. He has also worked with groups such as the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health Canada and the Health Council of Canada 

His principal research interests include health policy and knowledge translation, health human resources, quality of care and accreditation, and performance reporting.

He obtained his PhD in public policy from Carleton University, and also holds a MPH from the American University of Beirut and a B.Sc. from the Lebanese American University.