Three years of coping with COVID-19 has given Canadians a crash course in what’s right and wrong with their health-care system, particularly under stress. There is now an urgent opportunity to leverage that experience, together with existing knowledge about reforms needed in several fundamental areas, to secure the future of Canadian health care.
PPF has assembled a group of reform-minded Canadians with deep roots in health care. Practitioners, administrators, and policy, academic and technology leaders have come together in a shared determination to provide provincial and federal governments with up-to-the-minute policy advice as the current health-care crisis unfolds. This year-long project will include an examination of primary care, data and digital technology, care and wellness of older people, and mental health services.
Our panel of experts includes:
- Dr. Bob Bell, Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Georgina Black, Vice Chair & Managing Partner Government, Health & Life Sciences, Deloitte Canada
- Jodi Butts
- Beth Cowper-Fung, NP-PHC, MN, Clinic Director, The Georgina Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic
- Dr. Vivek Goel, President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor, Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
- Sonia Kumar, Member, CMA’s Patient Voice Group. CEO, Body Brave
- Dr. Alika Lafontaine, Former President, Canadian Medical Association
- Dr. Victoria Lee, Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia; Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
- David MacNaughton, President, Palantir Technologies Canada
- Dr. Kwame McKenzie, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto; CEO, Wellesley Institute
- Dr. Danielle Martin, Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Karen Oldfield, President and CEO, Nova Scotia Health Authority
- Dr. Jane Philpott, Dean, Queen’s University Health Science
- Dr. Verna Yiu, Interim Provost and Vice-President (Academic), University of Alberta
The group’s first report, called Taking Back Health Care: How to Accelerate People-Centred Reform Now, was published in January, 2023. An open letter to Canadians was published the same month, while Primary Care for Everyone was published in March, 2023. Next up: Data and Digital Technology.
Events
Reports
Unlocking Health Care
A system that still uses faxes needs to shift into the smartphone era. It's time for an urgent modernization of the health-care system.
Articles
An open letter to Canadians: Fixing health care starts now — and with you
Our health-care system belongs to all of us. It is not a possession of politicians, or the property of stakeholders claiming special status to speak in its interest. They are the custodians, the guardians to whom we have entrusted the system’s welfare.
Podcasts
Ep. 76: Unpacking the Clean Energy Puzzle with Scott Balfour
In this episode of Policy Speaking, Scott Balfour, CEO of Emera joins host Edward Greenspon to discuss the many puzzle pieces inherent in Canada’s energy transition. Balfour and Greenspon discuss how to reach renewable energy goals, the need for honest conversations and the question that’s on everyone’s mind: affordability.
Ep. 75: The Future of Healthcare with Dr. Victoria Lee & Dr. Danielle Martin
Paired with the release of the Public Policy Forum’s Taking Back Health Care report, this special edition of Policy Speaking features report authors Dr. Victoria Lee and Dr. Danielle Martin. Dr. Lee, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University, and Dr. Martin, Professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine with Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, join host Edward Greenspon to discuss what it will take to mend the health-care system – and why money is only a part of that solution.
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