Friday, November 8, 2013
Headshot Professor Colleen Flood

Professor Colleen Flood, LLM 1994 and SJD 1998, has been awarded an honorary membership by the College of Family Physicians. Honorary membership may be awarded to individuals who are not family physicians in Canada, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the CFPC, the discipline of family medicine, the medical profession, or the health and well-being of the population in Canada and globally.

Flood holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and is cross-appointed to the School of Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She serves on the board of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and is chair of ICES’s scientific advisory committee.

Her scholarly interests include comparative health care law and policy, administrative law, public/private financing of health care systems, health care reform, and accountability and governance issues.

She has authored numerous health law and policy research articles and many book chapters, guest edited three editions of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, written, and authored or edited eight books.  She also co-edited Comparative Health Rights at the Public/Private Divide, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.