Innovation Salon/ Salon de l'innovation
Monday, October 21, 2002
Courtyard Restaurant, 21 George, 241-1516
(Details of location below)
5:40 to 9:00 pm
Karen Mosher, former Executive Director,
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR):
Innovation in Organizations: From Vision to
Implementation: the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Created on June 7, 2000, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
(CIHR) is the leading national organization funding the full spectrum of
health research: biomedical and clinical, health determinants, and
health systems and policy. With a budget of $620m, a staff of 150, and a
suite of thirteen "virtual" institutes, CIHR represents a
transformative approach to health research, linking research need to
scientific excellence and opportunity, encouraging multidisciplinary
approaches to complex health challenges, and forging a national health
research agenda.
As Executive Director, Ms. Mosher led a seamless
transition for the staff and stakeholders of the Medical Research
Council as it was subsumed by the CIHR. This required building the
organization’s capacity to meet a new and more complex mandate;
promoting the agency’s profile and interests in a variety of contexts,
external and internal to government; doubling the organization’s
budget; creating new governance and administrative structures, and
recruiting candidates at the staff, science leadership, and Board
levels; broadening the organization’s research and program base; and
developing alliances and partnerships to meet the objectives of the new
organization. The challenge of leading and managing this transformation
is ongoing.
Ms. Mosher has also worked with the Treasury Board Secretariat, the
Privy Council Office, Fisheries and Oceans, Foreign Affairs and
International Trade, and for ministers of the Crown.
Cost: $10 to cover expenses. Persons cancelling less than 24 hours
before the meeting will be charged the registration fee.
Registration: For more information and RSVP by Thursday, October 24st
to:
Diane Shane, Industry Canada, shane.diane@ic.gc.ca
or 946-6515
Location: The Courtyard Restaurant, 21 George, 241-1516 is in the
Byward Market, in the first block East of Sussex, North of The Bay and
Chapters, in a courtyard on the North side of George.
This information is also available in The Innovation Salon Schedule,
published on Internet in The Innovation Journal under Salon.
Next meeting:
Monday, November 18 (dinner):
Panel with Angela Bate, Fisheries and Oceans Canada/Pêches et
océans Canada and Nancy Faraday-Smith, Ontario Labour, chaired by Vic
Pakalnis, Eastern Ontario Regional Director, Ontario Labour
"Innovation and the New Public Service Professional."
