Don Drummond to outline “A Roadmap to Healthcare Reform”

Don Drummond, Stauffer-Dunning Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, will discuss “A Roadmap for Healthcare Reform,” at CHEPA’s first seminar of the 2023/24 academic year on Wednesday, September 20 from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Many studies have recommended reforms to Canadian healthcare which have not been implemented or have failed. Prof Drummond says “We pondered lessons from the past failures and created a new approach that should achieve effective improvement to healthcare in Canada.”

The seminar will be presented virtually on Zoom. Please email ramsay@mcmaster.ca to access a link to join. All are welcome.

Drummond is currently Chair, Canadian Centre for the Study of Living Standards; Fellow-in-Residence, C.D. Howe Institute, and member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices.

In 2011-12, he served as Chair for the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services. Its final report, released in February 2012, contained nearly four hundred recommendations to provide Ontarians with excellent and affordable public services.

Drummond was previously Associate Deputy Minister with Finance Canada, where he was responsible for economic analysis, fiscal policy, tax policy, social policy and federal-provincial relations and coordinated the planning of the annual federal budgets.

He subsequently was Senior Vice President and Chief Economist for the TD Bank, where he took the lead with TD Economics’ work in analyzing and forecasting economic performance in Canada and abroad.

He has honorary doctorates from Queen’s and the University of Victoria and is a member of the Order of Ontario.