Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D)
Rx&D is the national association representing this country's 62 research-based pharmaceutical companies. Over 10,000 Canadian medical researchers are employed as a result of member companies' investment in Research & Development. Member companies share a single primary objective: to discover new medicines that improve the quality of health care available for every Canadian.

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
CADTH’s mission is to provide timely, relevant, rigorously derived, evidence-based information to decision makers and support for the decision-making processes.

The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)
Links to associations, databases and other data retrieval resources, evidence-based healthcare resources, funding agencies, government agencies, health ministries, journals and research centres. All these links have met strict criteria for inclusion.

Canadian Institute for Health Information
CIHI is a federally chartered but independent, not-for-profit organization. It brings programs, functions and activities from The Hospital Medical Records Institute (HMRI), The MIS Group, Health Canada (Health Information Division) and Statistics Canada (Health Statistics Division) together under one roof. CIHI's core functions are: identifying health information needs and priorities; collecting, processing and maintaining data for a comprehensive and growing number of health databases and registries, covering health human resources, health services and health expenditures; setting national standards for financial, statistical and clinical data as well as standards for health informatics/telematics; and producing and disseminating value-added analysis.

Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
The Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB) is a Canadian organization founded in 1990 for the purpose of fostering epidemiology and biostatistics research in Canada. The Society facilitates communication among epidemiologists and biostatisticians, and assists faculty or schools of medicine and public health to improve training in these disciplines.

Centre for Evaluation of Medicines
A multi-disciplinary resource since 1993, CEM provides expertise in clinical pharmacology and toxicology, economics, health policies, behavioral sciences, information technology, research design and biostatistics.

The CHSRF Chair on Dissemination and Uptake of Research's website.
The Research described here focuses on three questions: 1) Which factors encourage researchers to disseminate their research results outside the academic community? 2) Which factors encourage decision-makers and professionals from public and private organizations to use university research results in their professional activities? 3) Which public policy implications could be derived from factors favoring dissemination and uptake of research.

EPICORE Centre
Epidemiology Coordinating and Research (EPICORE) Centre, Division of Cardiology, University of Alberta is a clinical trials and health outcomes coordinating centre.

Health Canada's Therapeutic Products Program
Health Canada's Therapeutic Products Programme (TPP) is the national authority that evaluates and monitors the safety, effectiveness, and quality of drugs, medical devices and other therapeutic products available to Canadians.

The Health Evidence Applications Linkages Network (HEALNet)
A national network of researchers from disciplines throughout the health, social and applied sciences, whose common aim is to better the health of Canadians by improving decision-making at all levels in the health care system.

The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
Conducts research that provides information and evidence with a view to protecting and improving the effectiveness, quality, equity and efficiency of health care in Ontario.

The Institute of Health Economics
The Institute of Health Economics is an international centre of excellence in health and pharmaceutical economics, outcomes, and policy research based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The work of the IHE in research and research methodologies, policy analyses, educationand training, and knowledge transfer contributes to the efficient and effective use of health care resources. A not-for-profit organization,the IHE is distinguished by a university-government-industry partnership, and by the affiliation of 34 world-class research fellows. All of the research conducted by the Institute is available at no cost and can be downloaded from our web site. Our URL is http://www.ihe.ca

International Health Economics Association
This is an international society created to increase communication between health economists, to foster a higher standard of debate about and application of health and health care economics, and to assist young researchers.

International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
This website includes details of the Society's annual conference, journal - Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety, and newsletter - SCRIBE, along with relevant links to health policy, research and economic sites.

Kusuri Canada Corp.
Kusuri Canada Corp. is a consulting organization that offers services in corporate training and pharmaceutical product evaluations, specializing in product safety evaluation and related regulatory matters.

The McGill Summer Program
Contains a course in pharmacoepidemiology, coordinated by Dr. Jean-Paul Collet.

Medscape
Medscapes goals are: 1) To provide clinicians and other healthcare professionals with the most timely source of clinical information that is highly relevant to their patients and practice; 2) To make the clinician's task of information gathering simpler, more fruitful, and less time-consuming; 3) To make available to a broad medical audience clinical information with the depth, breadth, and validity needed to improve the practice of medicine.

Therapeutics Initiative
Provides physicians and pharmacists with up to date, evidence based, practical information on rational drug therapy. The Initiative is an independent organization, which is at arms length from government, pharmaceutical industry and other vested interest groups.

World Health Organization Statistical Data
This site includes health and health-related statistical information from the WHO Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy.