The IFIC Podcast

In this episode, IFIC Chief Executive Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani is joined by Dr Robert Reid, Chief Scientist Emeritus at the Institute for Better Health in Toronto and Professor at the University of Toronto and McMaster University. Robert is a global expert in population health, primary care, and learning health systems. In this conversation, he reflects on his journey from primary care physician i...

In this episode, IFIC Chief Executive Niamh Lennox-Chhugani is joined by Professor Kathrin Cresswell, Professor of Digital Innovations in Health and Care at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. Kathrin is a social scientist with extensive experience evaluating large-scale digital transformation programmes, including the National Programme for IT, the Global Digital Exemplar Programme, and...

In this episode, IFIC Chief Executive Niamh Lennox-Chhugani is joined by Dr Ingo Meyer, Head of PMV Research at the University Hospital of Cologne. With more than 15 years’ experience evaluating complex interventions across Europe, Ingo reflects on what it really means to evaluate integrated care in practice. From early European projects to his current work in Germany across oncology, palliative a...

In this episode, IFIC Chief Executive Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani is joined by Anna Wilding, Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, speaking from Melbourne. Anna is a co-author of the recent paper Impact of the rollout of the national social prescribing link worker programme on population outcomes: evidence from a repeated cross-sectional survey, published in the British Journal of General...

In this episode, IFIC Chief Executive Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani is joined by Deborah Cohen, Professor of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University and a member of the US National Academy of Medicine. Deb reflects on evaluating the scale and spread of an integrated, team-based care model in Oregon, originally piloted to support pregnant women living with substance use disorder. While...

Episode 1: Evaluation Explained — In Conversation with Tom Ling In the first episode of this series, IFIC Chief Executive Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani is joined by Tom Ling, Senior Research Leader and Head of Evaluation at RAND Europe, and former President of the European Evaluation Society. Drawing on decades of experience leading complex evaluations, Tom reflects on why evaluating integrated care re...

In this episode of the International Foundation for Integrated Care's podcast series, 'Measuring the Impact of Integrated Care,' Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, is joined by Dr Jason Cheah, Deputy Group CEO (Strategy, Planning and Resourcing) of the National Healthcare Group (NHG) and the CEO of Woodlands Health (WH). He is also Adjunct Professor at the LKC School of Medicine. Dr Cheah oversees cluster-wid...

In this episode of the International Foundation for Integrated Care's podcast series, 'Measuring the Impact of Integrated Care,' Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, is joined by David Harrison, an experienced accountant in the UK's health and social care system and Treasurer of IFIC's board.  David has a public-sector management, economics and commercial background.  He is a qualified chartered accountant and...

In this episode of the International Foundation for Integrated Care's podcast series, 'Measuring the Impact of Integrated Care,' Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, is joined by Dr Ng Yeuk fan, Director of Corporate Development in Yishun Health and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore. Yeuk Fan is a consultant public health physician experienced in health systems and services planning and development. At Yishun...

In this episode of the International Foundation for Integrated Care's podcast series, 'Measuring the Impact of Integrated Care,' Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, is joined by Ellen Nolte Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Policy Innovation and Evaluation, a collaboration between the LSHTM, the Care Policy Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of...

In this episode of the International Foundation for Integrated Care's podcast series, 'Measuring the Impact of Integrated Care,' Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, is joined by Sharon Anderson, Research Coordinator at the University of Alberta, Canada. Sharon is passionate about ensuring that health care providers recognize family caregivers and ask them what they need to care and to maintain their own wellbe...

In this episode of the International Foundation for Integrated Care's podcast series, 'Measuring the Impact of Integrated Care,' Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, is joined by Karōria Johns and Andrew Terris who discuss the integrated care in New Zealand from the perspectives of lived experience and system measurement. Karōria Johns (Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri, Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu) is wahine Māori (a Māori woman) wh...

In this episode of the International Foundation for Integrated Care's podcast series, 'Measuring the Impact of Integrated Care,' Niamh Lennox-Chhugani, is joined by Prof. Courtney Van Houtven from the Department of Population Health Science at Duke University School of Medicine. Prof. Van Houtven is a Research Career Scientist at the Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transf...

ValueCare is an EU-funded project aiming to deliver personalised integrated care using ICT, built around the value-based healthcare model.  In this series, members of the ValueCare team give us an insight into different aspects of the project from shared decision making with patients to tackling ageism to running a large scale pilot.  In this episode, we’re joined by Ethan McGrath from University...

ValueCare is an EU-funded project aiming to deliver personalised integrated care using ICT, built around the value-based healthcare model.  In this series, members of the ValueCare team give us an insight into different aspects of the project from shared decision making with patients to tackling ageism to running a large scale pilot.  In this episode, we’re joined by Sofia Santos Nunes from AGE Pl...

ValueCare is an EU-funded project aiming to deliver personalised integrated care using ICT, built around the value-based healthcare model.  In this series, members of the ValueCare team give us an insight into different aspects of the project from shared decision making with patients to tackling ageism to running a large scale pilot.  In this episode, Prof. Vanja Vasiljev from MEDRI in Croatia tel...

ValueCare is an EU-funded project aiming to deliver personalised integrated care using ICT, built around the value-based healthcare model.  In this series, members of the ValueCare team give us an insight into different aspects of the project from shared decision making with patients to tackling ageism to running a large scale pilot.  In this episode, Oscar Zanutto from Faber ISRAA joins us to int...

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Ass. Prof Apostolos Tsiachristas, Associate Professor of Health Economics at the  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences & Department of Psychiatry , University of Oxford, UK. Apostolos is an Associate Professor in Health Economics at University of Oxford, where he is leading a programme of research that focuses m...

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Prof Dr Jeroen Struijs, Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Centre . Prof Struijs is also a Senior Researcher at the Department of Quality of Care and Health Economics in the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM ) , The Netherlands.

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Brendan Walsh, Senior Research Officer at Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)  and Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin , Ireland. His research focuses on the interface of social care and healthcare.  Brendan was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences and the City Heal...

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Jacque Mallender, an international health and public policy economist. They demystify the language of payment models and the different models we see emerging. Jacque Mallender  started her career as a government economist and then moved into research and consultancy working in Europe and North America, and more recently in North A...

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Prof Ellen Nolte. Ellen Nolte is Professor of Health Services and Systems Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine . Her expertise is in health systems research, international health care comparisons and performance assessment. Over the past decade she has developed an internationally recognised research po...