Episode 1: Building More Resilient Healthcare Systems Across Canada

Over the past year, COVID-19 has forced leaders across the Canadian healthcare system to confront not only a massive public health crisis, but also a constellation of multiple pre-existing challenges each made exponentially worse by the global pandemic. Whether sitting in public health agencies or hospitals or community organizations or long-term care homes, these leaders were forced to confront health systems that were too often underfunded, underprepared and inflexible to deliver the patient care required in the face of the pandemic.

In this episode, the first podcast by the Resilient Healthcare Coalition (RHC), we unpack the concept of healthcare resilience and discuss whether Canada is truly moving towards a stronger and more nimble healthcare system.

Eva Villalba is the Executive Director of Coalition Priorité Cancer au Québec.

Jason Field is the President and CEO of Life Sciences Ontario.

Fred Horne is a a Health Policy Consultant and the former Alberta Minister of Health.

Listen below or on SoundCloud.

Read the transcript here.