The Future of Health and Health Care Policies in Canada

When:	Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Time:	2:15 pm — 3:30 pm
Location:	Richcraft Hall, Second Floor Conference Rooms
Audience:	Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty
Cost:	Free

This panel is a part of the Visions for Canada, 2042 Conference. You can learn more about the conference and register to attend by visiting the conference webpage.

From population health to medicare, health is hotly contested political arena in Canada. Shared and disputed across federal, provincial and municipal levels of scale, health and health care policies directly affect every Canadians’ well-being and wallet, shaping a hotbed of opinion and experiences. Health care is also a major source of employment and wealth creation in Canada, further adding to its political significance. This panel takes up four areas of health and health care to illuminate and speculate on potential futures for Canadian health and health care policies.

Presenters:

• Mehdi Ammi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. Ammi’s research crosses the fields of health economics, applied microeconometrics, and health policy. He is particularly interested in how resources are allocated in the health care system in Canada, and whether or not this allocation is efficient. He is currently the principle investigator for a project titled ‘The Impact of Regionalization on Health Care Accessibility in Canada,’ which is funded by a SSHRC Internal Development Grant.
• Hugh Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Political Economy at Carleton University. His research spans a variety of topics related to the political economy of health and health care. He has authored and edited over a dozen books on these subjects.
• Susan Braedley is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. Braedley is a leading scholar in the political economy of health care, long-term care, and ageing in Canada. She has published extensively on issues related to care and social reproduction throughout the life course. She is also currently involved in two international research projects designed to explore aging in residential places (‘Health Ageing in Residential Places’) and to identify healthy practices for both residents and employees in long-term residential care (‘Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices’).
• Marc-André Gagnon is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University.  Gagnon is known for his extensive work on social and health policy, particularly related to pharmaceutical policy and regulation in Canada. Using a political economy lens, he analyzes the dominant business models at play in the pharmaceutical sector, corporate impact on medical research related to medication, and corporate influence over doctors’ prescribing habits. He also conducts comparative analyses of health insurance and Pharmacare.
• Irena Knezevic is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. Her research focuses on the intersections between communication, culture, and health. She is currently working on a project with Phil Mount, called Project SOIL, which is focused on the possibility of on-site food production at public health care and educational institutions.
• Phil Mount is a lecturer and researcher at Wilfrid Laurier University. Mount’s research employs a political economy lens to investigate issues related to the scale and governance of sustainable regional food systems. Much of this research focuses specifically on the intersection of food, health, and agriculture. He is currently the principal investigator of Project SOIL, which is focused on the possibility of on-site food production at public health care and educational institutions.