Patrick Feng

University of Toronto | U of T · Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

Setting: COVID-19 has highlighted the need for credible epidemiological models to inform pandemic policy. Traditional mechanisms of commissioning research are ill-suited to guide policy during a rapidly evolving pandemic. At the same time, contracting with a single centre of expertise has been criticized for failing to reflect challenges inherent...

Background A population-based approach to healthcare goes beyond the traditional biomedical model and addresses the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration in promoting health of communities. By establishing partnerships across primary care (PC) and public health (PH) sectors in particular, healthcare organizations can address local health needs...

Purpose This pilot aims to study a way of integrating research and writing support into a university course along with content. Research and writing skills are not taught explicitly in most university courses, yet these skills are increasingly required both in and outside of the classroom. Design/methodology/approach An embedded, collaborative ins...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the impacts of a science-based environmental communication campaign at a university dining hall. The impacts are assessed in terms of student attitudes toward sustainability, food consumption choices and perceptions and understanding of the campaign and the information it communicated. Design/methodology/ap...

Background: A qualitative assessment of the research used in the development of a widely used Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) to gain insight into the kinds of evidence that informs the development of CPGs. Methods: All articles cited within the 2003 Canadian Pediatric Asthma Consensus Guideline (“the Guideline”) were secured, as was the literatu...

As information visualization is increasingly used to raise awareness about social issues, difficult questions arise about the power of visualization. So far the research community has not given sufficient thought to how values and assumptions pervade information visualization. Taking engaging visualizations as a starting point, we outline a critica...

This presentation provides a critical review of how the interface between science and policy has been conceptualized and how these conceptual models have shaped the way scientists, policymakers, and the public interact. While much work has been done to problematize the relationship between science and society, the question of how science ought to i...

In this chapter we offer a framework for thinking about the design of technology. Our approach draws on critical perspectives from both social theory and science and technology studies (STS). We understand design to be the process of consciously shaping an artifact to adapt it to specific goals and environments. Our framework conceptualizes design...

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We review the literature on standards, looking in particular at how scholars in the social sciences have approached the topic. We began by discussing various historical meanings and motivations for standardization. Next we examine various approaches to studying standards, distinguishing between development contexts and social effects of standards,...

This paper explores the role of ethics in design. Traditionally, ethical questions have been seen as marginal issues in the design of technology. Part of the reason for this stems from the widely held notion of technology being "out of control." This notion is a barrier to what I call "ethical design" because it implies that ethics has no role to p...

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University Microfilms order no. 3072198. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002. Includes bibliographical references.