Media
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
Bourgeault, IL., Lewis, Steven & Dale McMurchy (2024). UPEI faculty of medicine shouldn't be (just) a medical school. Salt Wire.
Radio interview for Shaye Ganam CHED Why the health-care sector is hiring temporary foreign workers like never before.
CBC Why the health-care sector is hiring temporary foreign workers like never before.
Radio interview for Shaye Ganam CHED The federal budget is an opportunity to transform health care.
Lewis, Steven, Bourgeault, IL., & Dale McMurchy (2024). Federal budget an opportunity to seed transformational change to fix failing primary care system.
CBC Health consultant says N.W.T. needs flexibility in what it offers nurses to compete with agencies
Globe and Mail Have nurses, will travel.
CBC The Current with Matt Galloway. Nurses leaving public health care for private agencies.
Bourgeault, I. & Oandasan, I. (2024) It’s time health-care workers became team players. Ottawa Citizen
Globe and Mail ‘Vicious cycle’ of overtime and temporary jobs for nurses linked to uptick in unintended harm to patients, report finds.
CTV News Why some worry about the rise of private agency health-care staffing firms in Canada.
Mantler, J., Bourgeault, I., & Power, N. (2023). Time to fix the inequity in Canadian research council grants. Hill Times.
CBC White coat black art. As Canada recruits Filipino nurses, those left behind struggle to care for patients.
Global News A private form of nursing and its rising costs across Manitoba.
CBC News Filipino nurses wanted.
CBC Inside the recruitment pipeline bringing nurses from the Philippines to Canada.
Oandasan, I., & Bourgeault, I. (2023) We need an all-hands-on-deck approach to solve the primary care crisis. Hill Times.
Toronto Star How we can right-size Canada’s health system as the population grows
CBC News Alberta urged to create chief nursing officer position to help fix health system.
Interview with Sierra Bellows from CDA Essentials, Brondani, M., Adams, T. Atanackovic, J., Maragha, T., Ramachandran, S., & Bourgeault, I. Article in CDA Essentials
CTV News Provinces compete to retain, recruit health-care workers.
Bourgeault, I.L. (2023). Canada’s health workers are sounding the alarm — we must act now Vancouver Sun
CBC News After 73 years of marriage, this couple is forced to live apart
Toronto Star Focus on retaining nurses before recruiting nurses from other provinces: association.
CTV News Retain nurses before recruiting nurses from other provinces: association.
Ottawa Citizen Critics worry new legislation aimed at attracting health workers could put patients at risk.
CBC News New Brunswick seeks nurses from Quebec amid health-care worker shortage.
Global News Radio interview re Ontario's plan to welcome healthcare workers from other jurisdictions around Canada.
CBC News Doctor departures turning east Ottawa into care ‘desert’.
Kevin MD podcast, Oct. 8th 2022 https://www.kevinmd.com/2022/10/exploring-the-critical-gaps-in-canadas-health-workforce-planning-podcast.html
April 2022
Dr. Bourgeault provides testimony to House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, April 27th, 2022 https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20220427/-1/36893?
Mar 8, 2022
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!
CanCOVID Speaking Series: The Pandemic Exposes Critical Gaps in Health Workforce Data Infrastructure - YouTube
Nurses' Mental Health and Wellbeing, RNAO, Health Systems Transformation & COVID-19 Webinar
Empowering Women Leaders in Health Spark live webinar with Children's Health Care Canada
Evidence in the Media: How Academics can Get Their Reseach in the Mainstream Media with Colleen Flood, November
Healthcare Policy Review: Best Practices for a National Healthcare System
How can we change the health workforce to serve our aging population? with Gregory Huyer.
Evidence Network podcast, featured in Hill Times, Will Senior Care Break the Bank? with Dr. Robyn Tamblyn, Dr. Neena Chappell and Dr. Michel Grignon
Haves & Have Nots: Midwifery in Canada. White Coat, Black Art, September
Opinion Editorials
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
La pandémie révèle des lacunes importantes, La Presse
The missing voice of women in COVID-19 policy-making, Oct. 14th. Policy Options
Patient safety and health worker safety go hand in hand, Oct. 13th. Winnipeg Free Press, with C. Power
Improves mental health access tied to workforce capacity. Oct 7. Hill Times, with M. Bartram
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
Nurses' mental health, leave of absence and return to work experiences: Introducing a new partnership initiative. RNAO, July with A. Ayoub, S. Price, M. Lavoie-Tremblay.
Long-term residential care work: recognized as essential but still essentially under-recognized. Policy Options, MayLong-term care work is essential but essentially under-recognized, Policy Options, June, with T. Daly & K. Aubrecht
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
Poor health workforce planning is costly, risky and inequitable, CMAJ with Sarah Simkin & Caroline Chamberland-Rowe, October
Nurse practitioners the solution to Canada's health care woes with Linda Silas
Ontario likely has enough doctors, Toronto Star; reprinted in the Huffington Post
Women's Work across every aspect of health care largely invisible, Hill Times: Policy Briefing: Health; reprint in Ottawa Life and Huffington Post, April
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.
It's simple: Canada needs more midwives - Ottawa Citizen
Interviews
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/
Ottawa Citizen Advocates push to expand whistleblower protection for personal support workers in long-term care homes, October 16th Elizabeth Payne
CBC News, “COVID-19 is changing the way men and women split the risk in the workplace: Pandemic is shifting more to female dominated professions. Oct. 12th, 2020. Evan Dyer.
CBC News, Edmonton, Pay gap between male and female professors continues to plague Canadian universities. Sept. 28, 2020.
Healthy Debate, “Cheering from afar: Study illustrates public’s concerns over contact with healthcare workers.” Sept. 14, 2020 Sharon Oosthoek
Ottawa Citizen 'The women’s pandemic': How COVID-19 has disproportionately affected women Sept. 1, 2020
CBC News Health Unit, Amina Zafar, April 21st 2020. 'Your whole life is spent caring': Clinicians over 60 stay on the job during pandemic despite the greater risk
Winnipeg Free Press, Duration of physical distancing still unknown, Katie May April 3, 2020
Global News, Medical school applicants: Abortion, Assisted Death and Conscientious Objectors, November 23, 2019
Interview for CBC Radio Ottawa on new Nurses Health Program, January
Interview for Global News on Healthy Professional Workers project, January
Interview for Ottawa Sun on Empowering Women Leaders in Health project, June
Interview for Calgary Herald on Skilled Immigrants Wasting Their Talents in Canada, September
Interview for CBC News on VON Shutting Down in Alberta, Saskachewan, Manitoba, P.E.I, and Newfoundland, November
Open Letter of rthe Star on Pharmacare Should be at the Top of Trudeau's Agenda, November.
Interview for the Globe and Mail on Spending on Canadian Doctors' Pay Jumps Despite Efforts to Curb Costs, September
Interview for The Star on Where will Cuts Fall on Medical Residence?, September
Interview for National Post on Untrained and Unemployed: Medical schools churning out doctors who can't find residencies and full-time positions, June
Interview for the Medical Post on Attack of the Killer Lawsuits.
Interview for Toronto Star on Midwifery Comes of Age; 20 Years After Regulation, Midwives Outnumber Obstetricians and Launch Two Birth Centres, May
Interview for Radio-Canada Montreal on Integration of International medical graduates