Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Colleen M. Flood, “Heaven or Hell? The Canada Health Act” (2010) PolicyMatters.ca. Many Canadians seem to believe that the CHA provides and protects rights to health care. The fact that it does no such thing is moot; a government proposing to tinker with the fundamentals of one-tier Medicare will be short-lived in its aspirations and/or political tenure. Although this is good news for those who favour universal public health care...
Presenter at the NHMRC Scientific Symposium and Workshop “Evidence into primary care – research translation and improved outcomes for patients”. This workshop consisted of short presentations from leading researchers followed by a workshop with invited government and non-government leaders in policy and practice. The goal of this workshop was to help NHMRC develop ideas as to how we can embed research and evidence into the provision of healthcare. November 10, 2010, Canberra, Australia
Presented opening remarks at the symposium on “Drug Promotion, Quality and Patient Safety”. The aim of the symposium was to provide researchers and policy-makers an opportunity to explore drug promotion regulation in terms of quality of information and impacts on patient safety. It also included discussion of the results of a comparative study examining the quality of information provided to primary care physicians by pharmaceutical sales representatives in the United States, France and Canada. November...
Presented at workshop on Health Rights at the Public/Private Intersection at the University of Toronto. This conference brought together health law and policy scholars from around the world, to discuss the impact of health rights litigation on equality of access to health care. In addition to presenting on health rights in Canada, I co-hosted the event with Aeyal Gross. October 22, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.
Presented at workshop on Health Rights at the Public/Private Intersection at the University of Toronto. This conference brought together health law and policy scholars from around the world, to discuss the impact of health rights litigation on equality of access to health care. In addition to presenting on health rights in Canada, I co-hosted the event with Aeyal Gross. October 22, 2010, Toronto, Ontario.
Moderated and led a workshop with deputy ministers and assistant deputy ministers from all provinces and territories – Financing, Sustainability and Governance Workshop. October 13, 2010, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Invited presentation to the Board of the Canadian Health Services and Policy Research Foundation. October 7, 2010, Ottawa, Ontario.
Moderated and organized an in-camera exchange (Best Brains) with the Saskatchewan government on “Developing and Implementing a Framework for Patient and Family-Centred Care”. October 6, 2010, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Invited to Washington and Lee University to present a paper entitled “Charter Rights & Health Care Funding: A Typology of Canadian Health Rights Litigation”. October 4, 2010, Lexington, Virginia.
Keynote speaker at Knowledge Utilization Colloquium on Public Policymaking Environments. June 10, 2010, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
