Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology

Proceedings of the Subcommittee on Population Health

Second Session, Thirty-ninth Parliament, 2007-08

Chair: The Honourable WILBERT J. KEON

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008

Issue No. 4

Twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth meetings on:

The impact of the multiple factors and conditions that contribute to the health of Canada's populations — known collectively as the social determinants of health

INCLUDING:
THE THIRD REPORT OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE
(Population Health Policy: Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Perspectives)
(Ninth Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology)

WITNESSES:

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

McMaster University:

Dr. Salim Yusuf, Professor, Department of Medicine.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

McMaster University:

Dr. Sonia Anand, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine.

Queen's University:

Karen Hitchcock, Principal and Vice-Chancellor;

Kristan Aronson, Professor of Epidemiology.

Wednesday, April 18, 2008

World Health Organization Commission on the Social Determinants of Health:

The Honourable Monique Bégin, P.C., Commissioner.

McMaster University:

Gina Browne, Professor of Nursing and Clinical Epidemiology.

Public Health Agency of Canada:

Dr. David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer.

Institute for Research on Public Policy:

Mel Cappe, President.

As individuals:

Laura Corbett, Consultant;

David Dodge, Former Governor of the Bank of Canada;

Beverly Nickoloff, Consultant;

John Wright, Former Deputy Minister of Finance and Health, Saskatchewan.

Access Consulting:

Steven Lewis, Consultant.

Canadian Public Health Association:

Debra Lynkowski, Chief Executive Officer.

Conference Board of Canada:

Diana MacKay, Associate Director, Education and Learning.

Canadian Policy Research Networks:

Sharon Manson Singer, President.

Dalhousie University:

Lars Osberg, Department of Economics.

University of Montreal:

Louise Potvin, Professor, Department of Social and Preventative Medicine.

Institute of Aboriginal People's Health for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research:

Dr. Jeff Reading, Scientific Director.

Canadian Medical Association:

William Tholl, Secretary General.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:

Armine Yalnizyan, Senior Economist.

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI):

Glenda Yeates, President and Chief Executive Officer.

MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE

The Honourable Wilbert J. Keon, Chair

The Honourable Lucie Pépin, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Brown, Callbeck, Cochrane, Cook, Fairbairn, P.C.

(Quorum 3)