Keynote Speaker

Tuesday June 14, 2005
14:00 – 15:00
Room A

Research Implementation as Politics, or What Happened when Machiavelli met Archie Cochrane

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Biography

Jonathan Lomas

Jonathan Lomas is the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, a nationally endowed organization founded in 1997 to improve the relevance and use of health services research in health system decision-making.

He grew up in Britain and did his undergraduate training in experimental psychology at Oxford University before coming to Canada as a Commonwealth Scholar. His background includes work or training in psychology, health economics, epidemiology, political science, and management.

From 1982-1997 he was a Professor of Health Policy Analysis at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, where he co-founded the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis - an applied research group with a strong emphasis on research dissemination and uptake. He has published two books and numerous articles and chapters in the area of health policy and health services research. His main interest, and the area in which he has an international reputation, is the role and impact of research evidence in health systems decision-making.

He has been a consultant to national and provincial governments, as well as providing research and advice to various non-governmental organizations, task forces and inquiries. He is currently on a number of boards including, in the US: AcademyHealth and Health Affairs; in the UK: Journal of Health Services Research and Policy and the Journal of Evidence-based Policy and Management; in Australia: the Institute of Health Research; and in Canada: Healthcare Quarterly. In Canada he has also been an Associate of the Population Health Programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1988-2004), a member of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee to Deputy Ministers on Health Services (1994-96), a member of the Ontario Premier's Council on Health, Well-being and Social Justice (1991-94), and a member of the Interim Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (1999-2000) as well as a member of the Institute Advisory Board for its Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (2000-2004).

His interest in international health issues is strong and reflected in consultancies for the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the International Development Research Centre and the Rockefeller Foundation in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, The Philippines, South Korea, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Australia. He has been a Visiting Professor or Scientist at the University of Gadjah Mada in Indonesia (1990), the University of Sydney, Australia (where he was also a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Health of the New South Wales Government) (1996/97), and the Dutch national research and development agency ZonMw (2004).