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2024

Nov 15, 2024

Bourgeault, I., & Simkin, S. (2024). Workforce planning essential to righting our primary healthcare ship. https://www.healthing.ca/wellness/opinion/opinion-workforce-planning-essential-to-righting-our-primary-healthcare-ship


Oct 16, 2024

Podcast: Doing Social Research — Researching Gender, Health, and Equity with Publishing Powerhouse Ivy Bourgeault

https://doingsocialresearch.com/podcast/researching-gender-health-and-equity-with-publishing-powerhouse-ivy-bourgeault/ 


Jul 3, 2024

Bourgeault, IL., Lewis, Steven & Dale McMurchy (2024). UPEI faculty of medicine shouldn't be (just) a medical school. Salt Wire.


Jun 28, 2024

Radio interview for Shaye Ganam CHED Why the health-care sector is hiring temporary foreign workers like never before.


Jun 25, 2024

CBC Why the health-care sector is hiring temporary foreign workers like never before.


Apr 15, 2024

Radio interview for Shaye Ganam CHED The federal budget is an opportunity to transform health care


Apr 12, 2024

Lewis, Steven, Bourgeault, IL., & Dale McMurchy (2024). Federal budget an opportunity to seed transformational change to fix failing primary care system


Mar 1, 2024

CBC Health consultant says N.W.T. needs flexibility in what it offers nurses to compete with agencies 


Feb 16, 2024

Globe and Mail Have nurses, will travel


Feb 12, 2024

CBC The Current with Matt Galloway. Nurses leaving public health care for private agencies


Jan 29, 2024

Bourgeault, I. & Oandasan, I. (2024) It’s time health-care workers became team players. Ottawa Citizen


Jan 22, 2024

CBC Access to Family Doctors hasn’t Kept Pace 

2023
Oct 19, 2023

Globe and Mail ‘Vicious cycle’ of overtime and temporary jobs for nurses linked to uptick in unintended harm to patients, report finds.


Oct 13, 2023

CTV News Why some worry about the rise of private agency health-care staffing firms in Canada.


Sep 27, 2023

Mantler, J., Bourgeault, I., & Power, N. (2023). Time to fix the inequity in Canadian research council grants. Hill Times.


Sep 16, 2023

CBC White coat black art. As Canada recruits Filipino nurses, those left behind struggle to care for patients.


Sep 11, 2023

Global News A private form of nursing and its rising costs across Manitoba.


Sep 9, 2023

CBC News Filipino nurses wanted.


Sep 8, 2023

CBC Inside the recruitment pipeline bringing nurses from the Philippines to Canada.


Aug 29, 2023

Oandasan, I., & Bourgeault, I. (2023) We need an all-hands-on-deck approach to solve the primary care crisis. Hill Times.


Jul 1, 2023

Toronto Star How we can right-size Canada’s health system as the population grows


Jun 5, 2023

CBC News Alberta urged to create chief nursing officer position to help fix health system.


Apr, 2023

Interview with Sierra Bellows from CDA Essentials, Brondani, M., Adams, T. Atanackovic, J., Maragha, T., Ramachandran, S., & Bourgeault, I.  Article in CDA Essentials


Mar 24, 2023

CTV News Provinces compete to retain, recruit health-care workers.


Feb 15, 2023

Bourgeault, I.L. (2023). Canada’s health workers are sounding the alarm — we must act now Vancouver Sun


Jan 30, 2023

CBC News After 73 years of marriage, this couple is forced to live apart 


Jan 27, 2023

Toronto Star Focus on retaining nurses before recruiting nurses from other provinces: association.


Jan 27, 2023

CTV News Retain nurses before recruiting nurses from other provinces: association.


Jan 26, 2023

Ottawa Citizen Critics worry new legislation aimed at attracting health workers could put patients at risk.


Jan 24, 2023

CBC News New Brunswick seeks nurses from Quebec amid health-care worker shortage.


Jan 23, 2023

Global News Radio interview re Ontario's plan to welcome healthcare workers from other jurisdictions around Canada.


Jan 17, 2023

CBC News Doctor departures turning east Ottawa into care ‘desert’.

2021
Sep 20, 2021
Sep 6, 2021
 

Jun 1, 2021

At the #GenderEqualHCW virtual event, our speakers clearly outlined what is needed to achieve gender transformative change in Canadian healthcare systems. We need take action NOW to make #genderequality and protection for women healthcare workers a reality!


 
Feb 1, 2021
2020
Aug 1, 2020

Nurses' Mental Health and Wellbeing, RNAO, Health Systems Transformation & COVID-19 Webinar


Jun 1, 2020
Long-term care work deserves our respect with Policy Options, June
2019
Feb 1, 2019

Empowering Women Leaders in Health Spark live webinar with Children's Health Care Canada

2017
Nov 1, 2017

Evidence in the Media: How Academics can Get Their Reseach in the Mainstream Media with Colleen Flood, November 


Oct 1, 2017

Healthcare Policy Review: Best Practices for a National Healthcare System

2015
Feb 18, 2015

Evidence Network podcast, featured in Hill Times, Will Senior Care Break the Bank? with Dr. Robyn Tamblyn, Dr. Neena Chappell and Dr. Michel Grignon

2014
Jan 1, 2014

Haves & Have Nots: Midwifery in Canada. White Coat, Black Art, September 

Opinion Editorials

Apr 25, 2022

Canadians are concerned about the mental health of health workers; they should be. Hill Times op ed April 25, 2022 https://www.hilltimes.com/2022/04/25/canadians-are-concerned-about-the-mental-health-of-health-workers-they-should-be/357360 

Oct 14, 2020
Oct 13, 2020

Patient safety and health worker safety go hand in hand, Oct. 13th. Winnipeg Free Press, with C. Power

Oct 7, 2020
Sep 20, 2020

Health-worker deaths from COVID-19 not just about the numbers. Toronto Star Sept. 4th with J. Sim & N. Gupta, Reprinted in French: La mortalité liée à la COVID-19 chez le personnel de la santé au Canada. Options Politiques. Sept. 20

Apr 27, 2020

Crisis underscores that health workers are backbone of health system. Hill Times, April 7. Reprinted in French Créer-une-banque-de-donnees-des-effectifs-en-sante for IRPP April 27th Reprinted in Hospital News July 2020

Oct 1, 2019

Poor health workforce planning is costly, risky and inequitable, CMAJ with Sarah Simkin & Caroline Chamberland-Rowe, October 

May 1, 2018

Ontario likely has enough doctors, Toronto Star; reprinted in the Huffington Post 

Apr 1, 2018

Women's Work across every aspect of health care largely invisible, Hill Times: Policy Briefing: Health; reprint in Ottawa Life and Huffington Post, April

Jun 1, 2016

What kind of health workforce will be needed to serve our aging population? with Gregory Huyer. The Hill Times Policy Briefing: Canada's Aging Society, June.

Nov 1, 2014

Interviews

Aug 10, 2022

National system for tracking medical staff shortages could prevent future crises at hospitals, advocates say August 10, 2022 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-health-care-staff-shortages-tracking/ 

Sep 24, 2020
Apr 3, 2020

Winnipeg Free Press, Duration of physical distancing still unknown, Katie May April 3, 2020

Jan 1, 2019
Jan 1, 2019

Interview for Global News on Healthy Professional Workers project, January

Sep 1, 2016

Interview for Calgary Herald on Skilled Immigrants Wasting Their Talents in Canada, September

Dec 1, 2015
Nov 1, 2015

Open Letter of rthe Star on Pharmacare Should be at the Top of Trudeau's Agenda, November.

Sep 1, 2015

Interview for the Globe and Mail on Spending on Canadian Doctors' Pay Jumps Despite Efforts to Curb Costs, September

Sep 1, 2015

Interview for The Star on Where will Cuts Fall on Medical Residence?, September

Aug 1, 2014

Interview for the Medical Post on Attack of the Killer Lawsuits. 

May 1, 2014

Interview for Radio-Canada Montreal on Integration of International medical graduates