Health-care funding in Canada: SFU experts available

Canada’s premiers have called on the federal government to increase the amount of funding it provides to provinces for health care. The Council of the Federation, made up of the premiers of each province and territory, continues to meet today in Victoria. SFU experts are available to talk about health-care funding, policies and needs. 

AVAILABLE SFU EXPERTS

ANDREW LONGHURST, health policy researcher, geography | andrew_longhurst@sfu.ca  
Expertise: health-care policymaking, political and economic geographies of health care reform in Canada and internationally, primary care, public health care

LYANA PATRICK, assistant professor, health sciences | lyana_patrick@sfu.ca  
Expertise: urban Indigenous health needs and issues, impacts of COVID-19, racism in the health care system

KAREN PALMER, adjunct professor, health sciences | kpalmer@sfu.ca  
Expertise: public health care, health-care spending, comparative health-care financing and delivery systems, policies and reforms

STEWART PREST, lecturer, political sciences | stewart_prest@sfu.ca  
Expertise: expertise 1, expertise 2, expertise 3, expertise 4.

CONTACT

MATT KIELTYKA,  SFU Communications & Marketing 
236.880.2187 | matt_kieltyka@sfu.ca

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