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2025

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

Bourgeault, IL., Lewis, Steven & Dale McMurchy (2024). UPEI faculty of medicine shouldn't be (just) a medical school. Salt Wire, July 3rd

Lewis, Steven, Bourgeault, IL., & Dale McMurchy (2024). Federal budget an opportunity to seed transformational change to fix failing primary care system. Policy Options, April 12, 2024

Bourgeault, I. & Oandasan, I. (2024) It’s time health-care workers became team players. Ottawa Citizen, January 29th

2023

Mantler, J., Bourgeault, I., & Power, N. (2023). Time to fix the inequity in Canadian research council grants. Hill Times. Sept. 27.

Oandasan, I., & Bourgeault, I. (2023) We need an all-hands-on-deck approach to solve the primary care crisis. July 30. Hill Times August 29th

Bourgeault, I.L. (2023). Canada’s health workers are sounding the alarm — we must act now Vancouver Sun, February 15th

2020 and previous

The missing voice of women in COVID-19 policy-making, Policy Options, Oct 14, 2020

Patient safety and health worker safety go hand in hand, Winnipeg Free Press, with C. Power, Oct 13, 2020

Improves mental health access tied to workforce capacity. Hill Times, with M. Bartram, Oct 7, 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, 2020

Nurses' mental health, leave of absence and return to work experiences: Introducing a new partnership initiative. RNAO, with A. Ayoub, S. Price, M. Lavoie-Tremblay. July, 2020

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, July, 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

Poor health workforce planning is costly, risky and inequitable, CMAJ with Sarah Simkin & Caroline Chamberland-Rowe, October 2019

Nurse practitioners the solution to Canada's health care woes with Linda Silas, Nov 2018

Ontario likely has enough doctors, Toronto Star; reprinted in the Huffington Post, May, 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, 2018

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, 2016

Why a new Health Accord needs to include better planning for health human resources. Hill Times, Dec, 2015

It's simple: Canada needs more midwives - Ottawa Citizen, Nov, 2014