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AMS Healthcare Announces a Ninth Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity
AMS Healthcare, along with the J & W Murphy Foundation, is proud to announce the establishment of the Hannah-Roper Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity at Dalhousie University and King’s University College. This ninth Hannah Chair joins a distinguished network of scholars advancing research and education in health professions and history. As…
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Medicare doesn’t have to be expensive…just look at Israel
This was the fourth of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare considering lessons from home and abroad. Bruce Rosen is director of the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute in Jerusalem. In Canada, there is an ongoing debate about whether to expand medicare to include a…
Addressing jurisdictional disputes to improve Indigenous heath
This was the second of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare that considered lessons from home and abroad. Josée Lavoie is a professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, and director of the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research, at the University of Manitoba. In 2017, there…
Canada should take healthcare lessons from Australia
This was the third of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare that considered lessons from home and abroad. Stephen Duckett is Director of the health program at Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and is a former head of the Australian Government Department of Health. Australia and Canada share many characteristics,…
Ensuring culturally safe care for Indigenous peoples
When we think about the health and care needs for Indigenous peoples in Canada, we often are drawn to the mental and emotional challenges resulting from the intergenerational trauma of residential schools. The fallout of this trauma, as we are familiar with and have heard in the media, includes increased substance misuse and addictions. It…
How can we decolonize our medical schools?
Can we decolonize and indigenize our medical school? I have been thinking about this question over the last few years. It underpins my AMS Phoenix fellowship to teach medical students about cultural safety. It also foregrounds a larger challenge about how to make our health care systems welcoming places for all patients, including those who…
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