AnIS

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AnÉIS

• What AnÉIS is ?
• What have been done so far ?
• What are the positive aspects ?
• What are the challenges ahead ?
• What can you do ?

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AnÉIS is a training program

• On Analysis Evaluation of health interventions
• Analysis
• Understanding relationships between various
  components of an intervention
• Evaluation
• To make a value judgment on an intervention
• Using scientifically valid methods
• So as to influence actors judgement and decision
  on that intervention
• Interventions
• Activities organized to modify a health situation
  judged as problematic
• Health and health care policies, programs,
  delivery models, professional and organisational
  practices, technologies etc
• Health
• Individuals and population functioning/adaptation

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AnÉIS aims at

• Goals
• Increase number qualified researchers capable
  making informed judgments on health interventions
• Improve exchange capacity and translation of
  knowledge between researchers and practitioners
• Objectives
• Attract future researchers of various disciplines
  in AnÉIS
• Expose researchers to various research
  environments interested in AnÉIS
• Develop a common transdisciplinary knowledge
  background on AnÉIS

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AnÉIS activities

• Attract future researchers
• Partnership with various doctoral programs
• Award doctoral post-doctoral scholarships
• Expose to various research environments
• Partnership with various research settings
• Support short-term training and internships
• Develop common knowledge on AnÉIS
• Complementary AnÉIS Training Program
• Leading to a complementary doctoral diploma
• Knowledge exchange
• Scientific conferences
• Support internship for mentors
• Support known researchers to visit AnÉIS
• Infoletter

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Training Program on Analysis and Evaluation of
Health Intervention (AnÉIS)
Doctorat professionnel en santé publique
Ph.D. en sciences sociales
Ph.D. en sciences biomédicales
Ph.D. Santé publique

• anthropologie
• sociologie
• sciences humaines appliquées
• sciences politiques

Training AnÉIS
Partenaires

• Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en
  réadaptation de Montréal-Métropolitain
• Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal2

• Groupe de recherche sur les servicesintégrés aux
  personnes âgées (GRSIPA)
• Directions de la santé publique
• Régies régionales de la santé etdes services
  sociaux

• Centre détudes en santé des populations
  etdéveloppement de lUniversité de Montréal
• Chaire en médecine familiale
• Centre de recherche Fernand Séguin1
• Centre de recherche du CHUM

• Chaires FCRSS/IRSC

1. À travers le programme de Goldner et coll.
Building capacity in mental health and
addictions services research. 2. À travers le
programme de Yves C. Joanette et al. Centre de
formation interdisciplinaire et trans-sectorielle
en santé et vieillissement.
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What have been done so far ?

• Attract future researchers
• Expose various research environments
• Develop common knowledge on AnÉIS
• Knowledge exchange

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To attract future researchers

• Partnership with doctoral programs
• With 7 doctoral programs
• Award scholarships
• Doctoral Planned 3 per year
• Reality 4/14 (2002/03) 4/11 (2003/2004), 2
• Trained in 2 programs
• Previous training 5 community health, 5 others
• University 5 from UofM, 3 Québec, 2 outside
• Post-doctoral Planned 2 per year
• Reality 2/13 (2003/04) 4
• Previous training 4 Soc. Sc, 1 public health, 1
  nurse
• Research interests 6 different domains

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To expose to various research environments

• Partnership with various research settings
• With 9 research environments
• Post-doctoral research environment
• 3 GRIS, 3 others
• Support short-term training and internships
• Planned undeterminded
• Reality for doctoral students 0/0

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To develop common knowledge

• Planned
• Advanced multidisciplinary seminar on AnÉIS
• Synthesis and transfer of knowledge
• Ethic in public health research
• Leading to a complementary doctoral diploma
• Reality
• Bi-monthly multidisciplinary seminar on AnÉIS
• Other aspects existing seminars
• Agreement for complementary diploma

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To exchange knowledge

• Scientific conferences on AnÉIS
• 6 conferences of known researchers (Patton,
  Levis, Fulop)
• Subscription American/ Canadian Evaluation
  Association Conferences
• Support internship for mentors
• Reality 3/3 (2003/04)
• Research environment
• CNRS, Harvard, ISERM
• Mental health, Drugs, HIT
• Support known researchers to visit AnÉIS
• Reality 2/2 (2004/05)
• Infoletter (with GÉTOS)
• To decision makers

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AnÉIS positive aspects

• Attract future researchers
• Doctoral students
• Good attraction
• Good students (grades 4.0-4.2), scholarships 3-4
• Post-doctoral students
• Good students scholarship (3/4)
• Broad research interests
• Interdisciplinary Inter-environment
• Partnership with 2 other training initiatives
• Partnership with 2 research chairsahirs
• Expose various research environments
• Good partnerships with research chairs
• Post-doctoral students in 3 research environment
• Mentors commitment involvement
• Students satisfaction

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AnÉIS challenges

• Attract future researchers
• Ph.D. students from other disciplines than PH
• Link with programs not enough
• May have to link with SSHRC
• Develop common knowledge on AnÉIS
• From interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary
• Knowledge synthesis exchange
• Sustainability
• Mentors commitment
• Common knowledge
• Complementary diploma

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How can you support ?

• Attract future researchers
• Advertise the programs
• Expose various research environments
• Interesting places for short-term internship
• Develop common knowledge on AnÉIS
• Development, translation, diffusion of training
  material
• Knowledge synthesis transfer
• Knowledge exchange
• Diffuse research results