Thursday July 17, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM • Room 25, Marco Biagi Foundation


Seminar within the PhD Program in Labour, Development and Innovation and organized in collaboration with the Health Economics and Management Observatory

Introduces
MARCELLO MORCIANO, Professor in Economics UNIMORE, Director of the Research Centre for the Analysis of Public Policy (CAPP)

PRESENT
LAURA SCHUMMERS, ScD
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia
Director, Epidemiology, Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART)
Investigator, BC Children’s Health Research Institute
University of British Columbia, Canada

Abstract
In this seminar, Dr. Schummers will present research using quantitative policy analysis methods to examine impacts of recent policy changes on reproductive health service use, access, and outcomes in Canada. Since 2017, Canada has undergone rapid reproductive health policy change including the 2017 introduction of the medication abortion drug mifepristone under a globally unprecedented regulatory framework and the introduction of universal, no-cost coverage for prescription contraception through provincial insurance programs starting in 2023. Dr. Schummers’s research uses linked health administrative data and interrupted time series analysis to estimate effects of these policies on contraception and abortion use and access, complications and adverse events, and costs.

The seminar will be held in English and is considered mandatory for PhD students of the 39th and 40th cycle in the Economics Area, and strongly recommended for PhD students from other areas.

Visit LAURA SCHUMMERS‘s website

Seminar: Administrative health data for quasi-experimental policy evaluation: Applications to reproductive health policy in Canada