Research Programs

Biostatistics

Biostatistics involves the development and application of statistical principles to the design, analysis, and execution of health research.

Cardiovascular Health (ICVHealth)

Cardiovascular health outcomes research seeks to understand the impact of health care practices and interventions on patient outcomes.

Clinical Trials

CHÉOS has a long history of implementing and supporting clinical trials across a range of disciplines.

Decision science studies how people make choices and how they can make better choices using current knowledge, recognizing the presence of uncertainty, complexity, and competing values and trade-offs.

Emergency Medicine

Emergency medicine research involves the study of services, innovations, and clinical management to prevent emergencies, optimize emergency care, and result in safe transitions to the community.

Evaluation

Evaluation is the systematic investigation of the quality or usefulness of a program, project, system, or organization to ensure accountability and/or learning and improvement.

Health Economics

Health economics is an integration of economic theories & methods with health policies, services & practices.

Health Services & Outcomes

Health services & outcomes research is the study of the relationships between people & their health care systems & health care providers, and the consequences of those interactions on their health.

Knowledge Translation

Knowledge translation facilitates the diffusion of evidence-based innovations into policy and practice.

Patient-Reported Outcomes

Patient-reported outcomes provide health care providers and researchers with important information about patients’ perspectives on the effectiveness of health care interventions and services.

Psychiatry

Psychiatric research is focused on examining diagnoses, treatment, and prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioural disorder to advance the understanding of mental illness and influence best clinical practices.

Psychosocial Epidemiology

The Psychosocial Epidemiology Program considers the complex ways in which social factors interact with the psychological and biological determinants of health, particularly in the areas health of mental health and substance use.

View Research by Subject Area

With more than 80 Scientists, research at CHÉOS encompasses a wide breadth of health areas and disciplines. Follow this links below to read more about some of these specific areas of focus.

Access to Care Aging & Related Conditions Cancer Cascade of Care Chronic Conditions Clinician Health & Wellbeing COVID-19 Culture & Ethnicity Data Linkage Diabetes Diagnostics Drugs & Pharmaceuticals End-of-life Care Environmental Health Epidemiology Ethics Exercise Science & Physical Activity Global Health Health Policy Health Spending & Priority Setting Housing & Homelessness Hypertension Indigenous Health Infectious Disease & STBBIs Intensive Care Long-term Care Measurement Mental Health & Wellbeing Modelling & Risk Prediction Nephrology Neurology Nursing Obstetrics & Gynaecology Organ Transplant Orthopaedics Overweight & Obesity Patient-Centred Care Patient Preferences Patient & Public Safety Paediatrics Primary Care Public Health Quality Improvement & Practice Change Anaesthesiology Quality of Life Remote Care & Digital Tools Reproductive & Maternal Health Resuscitation Rheumatology Screening & Testing Shared Decision-Making Sex & Gender Sleep & Health Social Determinants of Health Substance Use & Addictions Surgery & Procedures Vaccines Wait Times Work & Productivity Youth & Young Adults