Barbara Secker, University of Toronto

Research

Ethics Program Evaluation Ethics Training Expert Consensus Performance Evaluation Quality Improvement Scoping Review Bioethics Centres And Programs Bioethics Research

Latest papers

Disability and dignity-enabling home environments.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2012
Just regionalisation: rehabilitating care for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
BMC medical ethics · 2006 · first author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Ethics Program Evaluation in Canada: Synthesizing Research Evidence and Expert Practice to Improve Ethics Quality in Healthcare
CIHR · 2013 · Principal investigator
$24,942
National Collaboration on Bioethics Research and Training in Canada: A National Planning Meeting
CIHR · 2012 · Principal investigator
$18,750
Evaluating the effectiveness of hospital-based ethics programs: a pilot study to identify key benchmarks, indicators, and success factors
CIHR · 2008 · Co-investigator
$98,614

All 3 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Disability and dignity-enabling home environments.

Gibson BE, Secker B, Rolfe D, Wagner F, Parke B, Mistry B

Social science & medicine (1982)2012

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.10.006 PMID: 22142787

02

Just regionalisation: rehabilitating care for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.

Secker B, Goldenberg MJ, Gibson BE, Wagner F, Parke B, Breslin J, Thompson A, Lear JR, Singer PA

BMC medical ethics2006First author

DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-7-9 PMID: 16939654

Ethics Program Evaluation in Canada: Synthesizing Research Evidence and Expert Practice to Improve Ethics Quality in Healthcare

Principal investigatorCIHR2013Dissemination Events - Priority Announcement: Ethics

Principal investigators: Gibson, Jennifer; Secker, Barbara L

Keywords: Ethics Program Evaluation; Ethics Training; Expert Consensus; Performance Evaluation; Quality Improvement; Scoping Review

$24,942

National Collaboration on Bioethics Research and Training in Canada: A National Planning Meeting

Principal investigatorCIHR2012Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: Ethics

Principal investigators: Gibson, Jennifer; Librach, Sydney L; Secker, Barbara L

Keywords: Bioethics Centres And Programs; Bioethics Research; Bioethics Research Training; National Collaboration; Strengthening Bioethics Research Capacity In Canada

$18,750

Evaluating the effectiveness of hospital-based ethics programs: a pilot study to identify key benchmarks, indicators, and success factors

Co-investigatorCIHR2008Catalyst Grant: Ethics

Principal investigators: Gibson, Jennifer

Keywords: Benchmarks; Effectiveness; Hospital Ethics Programs; Program Evaluation; Qualitative Methods

$98,614

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Alison Thompson

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

1 shared papers, latest 2006

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