Priorities and challenges in primary care reform in Australia and Brazil
Lessons for Canada from a comparative health policy research network to advance resilient, equitable, high-performing health system
Join the Institute for Pandemics, and the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, to hear from leading experts in health systems and primary care reforms in Australia, Brazil and Canada – three diverse federations that share common challenges such as system fragmentation and inequities in access to care. This webinar featured presentations on the current priorities and reform efforts to strengthen primary care systems, highlighting the potential for comparative research to uncover the mechanisms for system change in a jurisdiction that may hold promise elsewhere.
As Canada faces a primary care crisis, and provinces and territories are embarking on various reforms using a range of financial and regulatory policy levers, this webinar provided an opportunity for scholars and policy makers to hear the experiences in other jurisdictions and draw lessons for Canada.
About the moderator and presenters
Sara Allin is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and Director of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Prof. Allin conducts research that aims to improve health system performance, and comparative studies across provinces/territories and internationally in health care and public health systems.
Carmen Huckel Schneider is Deputy Director at the Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she is also lead of the Health Systems and Governance theme. Associate Professor Huckel Schneider holds positions of Co-Director, Academic Education, Sydney School of Public Health; Adviser, Knowledge Exchange, at the Sax Institute; and Honorary Senior Fellow at the George Institute. A/Prof Huckel Schneider’s areas of expertise are the application of systems approaches for the analysis of health policy (financing, systems, institutions, services and technologies); health system governance and operational models; knowledge translation and exchange; and global health policy and governance.
Aylene Bousquat is a Professor of health policy at the School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is a physician with MPH and PHD in Public Health. Her research interests include primary health care, regionalization, geography of health care and policy implementation.
Stefanie Tan is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She is based in the North American Observatory for Health Systems and Policy and specializes in health financing, outcomes-based contracts and comparative health policy, particularly in Canada and England. She recently completed her post-doctoral fellowship with the Institute for Pandemics and NAO conducting comparative health policy research on topics such as primary care governance, integrated care reforms, emergency department diversion, and public-private parntershps for health systems resilience.
We are grateful to the NorthWest Health Properties (NWHP) REIT whose generous support has enabled the development of a broad comparative health policy research and training network to accelerate the ongoing analysis of key health policy and health system challenges learned from the COVID era and to generate sustainable solutions to reform and strengthen health systems. The Network draws on research expertise from the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO), the Institute for Pandemics (IfP), and global partners to provide a platform for comparative health systems and policy research.