The ODPRN has the capacity to conduct research to determine the real-work drug utilization, safety, effectiveness, and costs of drugs on Ontario, and have development partnerships that allow us to engage in cross-provincial comparisons of drug safety and utilization
The ODPRN is comprised of four units:
1. Rapid Response Unit (RRU), whose primary function is to work with policy-makers to efficie
ntly respond to research questons using linked population-level information
2. Stakeholder Advisory Panel (SAP), which collaborates with the RRU in fulfilling policy-maker research requests, as well as addressing their own research questions through traditional academic research
3. The Formulary Modernization Unit (FMU), whose function is to synthesize effectiveness, safety, contextual and econmic data on specific drug classes to generate policy recommendations for updating Ontario's drug formulary
4. The Knowledge Translation Unit (KTU), which disseminates the ODPRN's research findings to target knowledge users and stakeholders, including policy-makers, researchers, clinicians and the public
