Dr. Flood is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. She completed her Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1994 and her Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) in 1998 at the University of Toronto. Her areas of research interest include comparative health care policy, public/private financing of health care systems, health care reform, and accountability and governance issues. She was the 1999 Labelle Lecturer in Health Services Research and was appointed a Senior Fellow of Massey College in 2004 and in 2006 on to the Corporation of Massey College.
Dr. Flood is also the author of numerous health law articles in prestigious journals such as the Canadian Medical Association Journal; the Alberta Health Law Journal; the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics; the Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law; the Canadian Business Law Journal; the Health Law Review; and Policy Matters. She has also been a special guest editor on two separate editions of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. She is also the author of many book chapters and the author/editor of four books: 1) International Health Care Reform: A Legal, Economic and Political Analysis (London: Routledge, 2000) 2) co-editor (with Jocelyn Downie and Tim Caulfield) of Canadian Health Law and Policy (2nd ed.) (Toronto: Butterworths, 2002), 3) co-editor (with Lorne Sossin and Kent Roach) of Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate Over Private Health Insurance in Canada (Toronto: UTP, 2005) and 4) editor of Just Medicare: What's In, What's Out, How We Decide (Toronto: UTP, April 2006). In 2005, she was appointed as an editor with the IHSPR-supported journal, Healthcare Policy.
Welcome Message from Dr. Colleen M. Flood, Scientific Director
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