Pat Armstrong, Armine Yalnizyan to headline research roundtable on the profitization of health care
Profiteering is harming Canada’s health care system in different ways, from the private outsourcing of health care services to the murky world of financial equity taking hold of health care. On October 23, Canada’s prominent and emerging researchers on the profitization of health care will gather at the University of Ottawa to share their cutting-edge research on the topic.
Registration is now open to the public to attend.
Profitization of care refers to the proliferation of for-profit delivery of care. As noted by Armine Yalnizyan and Pat Armstrong, keynote speakers at the October roundtable, Canada’s health care system is increasingly being infiltrated by venture capital, private equity and foreign direct investment.
The research roundtable is hosted by the Canadian Health Coalition and the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law Policy and Ethics. A summary agenda of speakers and their presentation topics is now available.
Jason MacLean, Chair of the Canadian Health Coalition, and Vanessa Gruben, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics will provide opening remarks.
Panels include obstacles to universal pharmacare with Joel Lexchin, Canadian Health Coalition board member, Marc-André Gagnon, professor of political economy at Carleton University, and his research team, and Danyaal Raza, Sheryl Spithoff and Brigid Golem from the University of Toronto.
Other panels will unpack the financialization of heath care, public-private health care collisions and tensions, the social/structural determinants of health, and public health care solutions.
The research roundtable will be an opportunity to share promising practices and build partnerships across diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Senior and emerging scholars, graduate students, and union/community researchers will participate.
