Health Sciences Policy Division

This Division provides strategic and policy advice to the Minister and senior managers to ensure that the potential advances in health sciences, and in particular in human genetics, are maximized for individual Canadians and Canadian society in general.

This Division also provides advice on matters relating to the development and management of departmental regulatory affairs, including the development of frameworks, policies and directions on a broad range of scientific and multi-disciplinary or jurisdictional issues through the departmental Regulatory Affairs Secretariat, which provides support to the Departmental Committee on Regulatory Affairs (DCORA) and the sub-committee on Legislation and Regulations.

In order to understand and address the health, ethical, social, legal and economic implications arising from these scientific advances, the Division monitors and, where feasible, forecasts impacts of the application of these advances on the health system in Canada.