The Health Briefs: Recent Episodes
The Health Briefs
A monthly podcast that gives you insights from renowned guest experts themselves on current health issues that matter to you. Our goal is to give you a breakdown on the latest health topics that are in Canadian news on health policy, health economics, and all things health. The podcast is brought to you by Sophiya Garasia, Tooba Fatima and other graduate students from the health policy and public health programs at McMaster University. This podcast is funded by the School of Graduate Studies SPICES grant.
In this podcast, we discuss Canadian Indigenous health and health policy. Joining us is Dr. Jennifer Walker, an associate professor in the School of Rural and Northern Health at Laurentian University. She holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health, is the Indigenous Lead for the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and has Haudenosaunee family roots. She uses population-level data and participatory research approach to study health conditions and services across the life course, with a focus on chronic illnesses. She is also working to establish and execute data partnership and governance agreements that use Indigenous principles of data governance and ownership as a foundation. We were able to speak to Dr. Walker when she was at McMaster University for the annual Labelle Lectureship Series.
During this podcast episode, we are talking about where the major federal parties stand on various current health topics - pharmacare, the opioid crisis, and climate change. Election day is right around the corner in Canada, on October 21st, and as Canadians, it is in our best interest to make an informed decision that will set the course for the next four years and beyond.
In this episode, we discuss one of the biggest news stories of the year: pharmcare. It has been a hot topic recently as it currently on the Liberal’s agenda as they head into the fall 2019 elections. To discuss pharmacare and more, we have Dr. Steve Morgan, a health economist, an advocate for pharmacare and a a professor in the school of population and public health at the University of British Columbia, join us.