Professor Colleen Flood has been appointed an editor of Healthcare Policy, a new quarterly journal expected to have its first edition ready by late summer or early fall 2005. Flood is an Associate Professor at the U of T Faculty of Law and Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, as well as Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy.
The new bilingual journal will publish original scholarly and research papers that support Canadian health policy development and decision making in spheres ranging from governance, organization and service delivery to funding and resource allocation. It is intended for health system managers, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, educators and academics.
"We chose our editors from both the research and decision-making communities. Professor Flood was a natural for the role as she has distinguished herself through her consulting work in health policy and governance issues in Canada," says the journal's Editor-in-Chief, Brian Hutchison, of McMaster University. "We are delighted to have her on our editorial team."
Prof. Flood is regularly sought for public comment on Canada's health care policies and reform, and is well known as a top health policy expert in Canada. She has 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).
The journal will be supportive of interdisciplinary research on health services and policy and open to researchers from a broad range of disciplines including social sciences, humanities, ethics, law and management sciences. Topics in the journal will address health services, management and policy issues relevant to the Canadian context, and include themes such as workforce planning, training, and regulation; timely access to quality care for all; and sustainable funding and ethical resource allocation.
Healthcare Policy is being published by Longwoods Publishing, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, and the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR).
