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Editors-in-Chief

Audrey Laporte
Professor and Director, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Sara Allin
Associate Professor, Health Policy, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto and Director, North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Toronto, ON

Editorial Advisory Board

Owen B. Adams
Senior Advisor to the CEO, Canadian Medical Association, Ottawa, ON

Colleen Flood
Dean (Faculty of Law), Queen's University, Kingston, ON

Alika Lafontaine
Former President, Canadian Medical Association; Associate Clinical Professor, University of Alberta; Founder, Ekwa Insights; and Anesthesiologist, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB

Ruth Lavergne
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

Lara Gautier
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health - Department of Health Management, Evaluation and Policy, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC

Stephen Samis
Associate Scientific Director, O'Brien Institute for Public Health and Lead, Centre for Health Policy, University of Calgary and President/Founder, Samis Health Policy Consulting, Calgary, AB

Shelley Doucet
Professor in Nursing, Department of Nursing and Health Sciences; Jarislowsky Chair in Interprofessional Patient-Centred Care and Director, Centre for Research in Integrated Care, University of New Brunswick and Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick

Editorial Director

Dianne Foster-Kent

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Nathalie Legros

Publisher & CEO

Matthew Hart

Publisher & COO

Rebecca Hart

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Susan Hale

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Benedict Harris

Creative

Eric Hart

 

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ISSN No. 1488-917X

eISSN No. 1929-6339