Colleen Flood, LLB (Hons), LLM, SJD
University of Toronto
Health Care Law, Policy and Finance
Dr. Colleen M. Flood is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. She is the former Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. She is also an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Toronto and is cross-appointed into the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the School of Public Policy.
Professor Flood obtained her B.A. and LL.B. (Honours) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and her LL.M. and SJD from the University of Toronto, Canada. Her primary area of scholarship is in comparative health care policy, public/private financing of health care systems, health care reform, and accountability and governance issues more broadly. She has been consulted on comparative health policy and governance issues by both the Senate Social Affairs Committee studying health care in Canada and by the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission).
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Commentaries by Colleen Flood:
Time for Canada to improve its healthcare performance
Wrestling with Big Pharma






