Speakers

As Director of IDRC’s Evaluation Unit, Fred Carden is an expert on developing innovative ways to assess the impact of development programs and the contributions of research to concrete policy and behavioural changes.  Carden has been with the Evaluation Unit since 1993. His work has focused on assessing the influence of research on public policy, developing tools to assess organizational and program performance, and outcome mapping — a people-focused approach that evaluates development programs based on how they affect relationships, activities, and behaviour. He has written extensively on evaluation, international co-operation, and environmental management. He has taught at York University in Toronto as well as in Tanzania and Indonesia. 

Ibrahim Daibes manages research on health services in low- and middle-income countries and is an expert on Canada’s role in global health research at the International Development Resarch Centre.  Daibes joined IDRC in 2006. As part of the Global Health Research Initiative, he manages the Teasdale-Corti Global Health Research Partnership, a program that fosters partnerships for health research and its effective use. His main areas of interest are health policy and systems research, and evidence-based health planning. Before joining IDRC, Daibes directed research programs for the Health Development Information Project in Palestine, and was a health development advisor for the Oxfam GB program in Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. He also worked with UNICEF and the Micronutrient Initiative, examining how information and communication tools affect nutrition policies in developing countries. 

Stacey Daub is Chief Executive Officer of Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) one of the city’s largest community-based health care providers known for its unique case management approach focused on the care needs of its diverse populations. She is the Co-Chair of the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care’s ED/ALC Expert Panel, Co-Chair of theToronto Central LHIN Integrated Care for Complex Seniors Task Force and Executive Business Lead for the Resource Matching and Referral System for the Toronto Central LHIN.  Ms. Daub holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario and is a graduate of the Advanced Health Leadership Program from the Rotman School of Business. 

Michael Hall is Vice President, Program Research and Development at the YMCA of Greater Toronto where he provides leadership to its research and the evaluation of its impact on the health of children, teens and young adults. Michael’s career has focused on strengthening the social impact of charities and community organization and includes establishing and directing a number of national research and funding programs for leading Canadian charities and foundations. Michael holds a PhD in social psychology from York University.

Anne C. Kubisch is the Director of the Roundtable on Community Change at The Aspen Institute.  The aim of the Roundtable is to distill lessons that are being learned by the current generation of community revitalization efforts and to work on cross-cutting problems facing policymakers, practitioners, funders, and researchers in the field of community change. Anne directs a number of Roundtable projects on topics that are key to community revitalization, such as racial equity, civic capacity, and evaluation of community change initiatives.  She has been the lead author of five books published by the Roundtable and  has written numerous papers and articles about efforts to improve conditions in distressed communities.  Anne also serves as the lead facilitator and trainer in Roundtable convenings of researchers, practitioners, policymakers and funders, and she frequently gives public presentations on the Roundtable’s work.

Tim Warren is the policy lead for self management (for people with Long Term Conditions) in the Health Department of the Scottish Government.  He was formerly the policy lead for health improvement and health inequalities. He has worked in multiple sectors including social work, criminal justice, education and health.  His academic training is from the University of Aberdeen in 1980, qualifying as a social worker in 1986. He worked in residential child care, before returning to education, in New York and then Edinburgh. He worked in criminal justice social work in Aberdeen and later in Dumfries, before becoming a social work inspector in the Scottish Executive in 2000. Here he provided professional advice, moving from offenders’ work, to the team which established the Scottish Social Services Council and the Care Commission, and then to the reform of social work education.