CADTH Lecture Series – Is Deliberative Public Engagement Worth the Trouble?

The CADTH Lecture Series provides prominent scholars and opinion leaders with a forum to discuss pressing issues facing health technology assessment (HTA) and health care today.

Michael M. Burgess, PhD
Professor, W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, School of Population and Public Health

Deliberative public engagement is expensive, labour-intensive, and produces knowledge that is limited in scope and extensibility. That said, if decisions about drugs are to be informed by diverse public perspectives, with citizens considering how they would balance fair decision-making with persistent substantive disagreement, then deliberative engagement is the only approach to consider. During this lecture, Dr. Burgess will argue that deliberative public engagement is best used when the scale and urgency of policy decisions justify the expense and effort.

Date:              Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Time:              1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST
Location:        2nd Floor Council Chambers, 865 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario

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