Canadian health policy and politics
Researchers, analysts, commentators, advocates, and journalists. Mainly Canadian perspectives, but not exclusively.
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@alonghurst.bsky.social
@egpayne.bsky.social
I write about health for the Ottawa Citizen. Dog walker, amateur violinist, professional journalist. #CanadaSky
@ha4palestine.bsky.social
Health workers and learners in solidarity with Palestine and the Palestinian people. ❤️🇵🇸 healthworkersforpalestine.org
@allianceon.bsky.social
#HealthEquity through comprehensive primary healthcare. More than 100 community-governed health organizations across Ontario. #CHC #AHAC #CFHT #NPLC www.allianceon.org/conference2025
@bcsocialworkers.bsky.social
BC Assoc. of Social Workers is a voluntary, not-for-profit membership association. We support & promote the social work profession.
@bcpolicy.bsky.social
bcpolicy.ca | We’re a progressive public policy research institute. We look at issues facing British Columbia and propose bold and achievable policy solutions that centre social, economic, environmental and racial justice. Join us!
@bchealthcoalition.bsky.social
Non-partisan, non-profit coalition of community members, health care workers, researchers, NGO and community service providers. We base our policy positions on peer-reviewed research and on our mission to strengthen and defend PUBLIC health care.
@wellesleyinstitute.bsky.social
Wellesley Institute engages in research, policy and community mobilization to advance health equity. Join our newsletter: https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/in-the-news/newsletter/
@chrischirp.bsky.social
Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal.
@jljcolorado.bsky.social
Dist. Prof. Chem. & CIRES, Univ. Colorado. #HighlyCited2022, Fellow AAAR & AGU. http://Bit.ly/TenSR http://Bit.ly/ATRVs Aerosols, pollution #EndFossilFuels #COVIDisAirborne. Views are my own
@yipengge.bsky.social
primary care doctor; structural determinants of health; public health; anti-racism; he/him Email: yipengge@proton.me
@edwardxie.bsky.social
Working as an ER physician, U Toronto faculty, and PhD candidate. Interests in access to medicines, social protections, wellbeing societies, planetary health, and climate justice climatehealth.utoronto.ca/fellow-profile/xie-edward
@kprather.bsky.social
Aerosols, airborne, air quality, clouds-climate, health, viruses, bioaerosols, public speaker, environmental justice. ❤️ ❤️ gardening, cooking, empathy. https://airborne.ucsd.edu https://kprather.scrippsprofiles.ucsd.edu/
@actagainstcovid.ca
We press the Sask gov't & other institutions to prevent COVID-19 infection. Everyone's health is worth it. Start here: http://linktr.ee/actagainstcovid
@nbcovidinfo.bsky.social
#COVIDisAirborne clean air rebel alliance crew, sharing the best info I can find from other people - especially engineers and industrial hygienists. New Brunswick focus but SARS works the same everywhere. Don't breathe it in. https://linktr.ee/Nbcovidinfo
@covid19disease.bsky.social
Coronavirus and other health-related updates. Regular updates on Outbreaks, Pathogens For more updates follow us. https://linktr.ee/covid19_disease
@longcovidadvoc.com
A non-profit social enterprise dedicated to people with Long Covid + ME. Shifting the paradigm one step at a time... https://www.longcovidadvoc.com/ 🛍️ https://longcovidadvoc.shop/
@policyalternatives.ca
The CCPA is Canada's leading progressive policy research institute. We offer independent, non-partisan research on social, economic & climate justice. www.policyalternatives.ca Instagram & FB: policyalternatives
@cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social
An evidence-based, values-driven organization dedicated to strengthening & preserving Canada's publicly-funded health care system. Join today! https://www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/cdm_health_summit_2025
@ycrh.bsky.social
Canadian youth passionate in driving change for children and youth health through research 👩🏫 collaboration 🤝 advocacy 🗣 and engagement 💪 sandboxproject.ca/ycrh-home
@joeallenjoe.bsky.social
Assoc Prof at Harvard; Direct Harvard Healthy Buildings Program; Exposure and Risk Science; Author: HEALTHY BUILDINGS book w/ HBS Prof Macomber linktr.ee/healthybuilding
@thewhn.bsky.social
Bringing people, science, and compassion together to solve world problems and protect health. Let's #EndThisPandemic together.
@kffhealthnews.org
A national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues; a core program of @KFF.org. Also publishes California Healthline.
@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Disabled & chronically ill writer. Former theatre critic. Clean air is a human right & vulnerable people aren’t expendable. Covid is airborne 😷 https://www.disabledginger.com A redheaded snippet who loves Sondheim. Once fainted into Hugh Jackman.
@chantzy.bsky.social
Science communicator & writer ✍🏼 🧬 Global health & epidemiology Grad student & activist 📍Vancouver, BC
@hmpxvt.bsky.social
Infectious disease news. Sharing reports on outbreaks, from bird flu to Ebola. Follow this account if you want to be the first to know when a novel pathogen appears or a dangerous outbreak is brewing. Support me here: https://ko-fi.com/hmpxvtracker
@amytanmd.bsky.social
Human being, book dragon, thinker, disruptor + rebel, disabled, mom, wife, physician (palliative care & family med), writer, educator, scholar. Non-partisan, pro-humanity, pro-collective care+liberation. BC West Coaster. 🌊 Views my own. (she/her)
@maxwellsmith.bsky.social
Bioethicist, Associate Professor, and CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Ethics & Health Emergencies at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Also Associate Director of Western's Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Views are my own. maxwellsmith.ca
@jwnickerson.bsky.social
Humanitarian Representative to Canada for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (@MSF.ca) 🌎 Respiratory Therapist 🫁 Trail runner and adventurer🏃♂️ Public health/infectious diseases/health systems researcher focusing on older adults ☣️
@healthlawadamh.bsky.social
Health/Law/Human Rights. Thinking globally, meeting CanCon requirements. Disproportionately but not exclusively access to medicines/global health/humanitarian/public health/infectious disease.
@kakape.bsky.social
science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious. interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue contributing correspondent at @science.org co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social 2024 KSJ fellow at MIT Signal: kakape.93
@steveubc.bsky.social
Economist, professor of health care policy, and advocate for universal access to medicines in Canada and around the world. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally. #pharmacare he/him
@donoharmbc.bsky.social
We're a nonpartisan action group in BC, Canada advocating for evidence-based safety measures in high-risk settings. https://linktr.ee/DoNoHarmBC | https://donoharmbc.ca
@kimchspr.bsky.social
Professor, Scientific Director, health data enthusiast, views my own. Based on the beautiful, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples (Vancouver, BC).
@lindsayhedden.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @SFU_FHS. I do work in primary care, health workforce, equity and virtual care.
@monikadutt.bsky.social
Health Policy PhD candidate (McMaster), Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Family Doctor (Ally Centre of Cape Breton); interests: labour justice, health/health care policy, public health
@onschoolsafety.bsky.social
Demanding clean, breathable air for our kids & ed workers. Healthy, safe & stable schools & buses for ALL. We believe clean air can be achieved by many means: ventilation, filtration, N95 masking, UV disinfection, & isolating.
@kwardvancouver.bsky.social
once called « Canada's only public intellectual » drug policy resercher & advisor ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer institute for the history of possible futures https://free-futures-society.org/
@mbhealthcoal.bsky.social
Bringing Manitobans together to protect & expand universal, public health care. Leading the fight against health care privatization. https://www.mbhealthcoalition.ca
@covidlonghaulers.bsky.social
Raising awareness #COVID19 and #LongCovid Supporting fellow long-haulers. Join our group for support! (Human curated) Media: covidlonghaulers@gmail.com #MedSky facebook.com/groups/COVIDLongHaulers YouTube.com/@covidlonghaulers Patreon.com/BrookeLine
@ritamc.bsky.social
🇨🇦Family doctor & primary care researcher. Settler on Tsleil-Waututh, the Musqueam & Squamish lands (aka Vancouver, BC) Imperfect parent. Slow runner. Unsatisfied with the status quo & can't stop 📢 about changing it. she/her & here for🌈🏳️⚧️ Posts my own.
@nurseranger.bsky.social
He/him | Uninvited settler on stolen Quw’utsun Territory | Nurse | #HarmReduction
@faussenurse.bsky.social
Academic poinçonneur des Lilas. Professor at UVic. Held a CIHR Applied Public Health chair 2014-2019. Health, primary care, policy and evidence. When I don't work I fix stuff. #academicsky #YYJ #YUL
@jaclynmacrae.bsky.social
Mum of 3 | Wife | #AuDHD #NDSquad | Producer | Photog | Fmr Journo | Writer | Researcher | Rower+Runner | Zoo Keeper! | YVR via YYZ | #Resist | Born 334.19ppm CO2 | https://linktr.ee/jaclynmacrae
@ehyshka.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta's School of Public Health. Substance use and public health. Edmonton/Treaty 6. She/her. ichwp.ca + whyscs.ca.
@cancovsoc.bsky.social
At the Canadian Covid Society, we strive to protect the health and safety of people in Canada against the harms of COVID-19 and long Covid, through education, engaging and empowering the public and organizations with scientific knowledge.
@nancyolivieri.bsky.social
#Whistleblower #Prof #Peds #Med #PublicHealth Legal victories I can’t talk about yet. Researcher. Veteran vs academic #corruption. Book + mini-series underway.
@healthydebate.bsky.social
Healthy Debate publishes journalism about health care in Canada. Free to read. Free to republish. http://linktr.ee/healthydebate
@tsk.bsky.social
phd(c) sfu health sciences | outreach social worker | decarcerate the state | p.o.w.e.r. https://linktr.ee/tyssingh
@frozen.bsky.social
Dad, ally, and keeper of digital receipts | #MECFS since 2004 | #LongCovid since 2020 | Archivist by training | 🇨🇦 by choice | @frozen in the old 🐦 country | he/him
@ghostgurney.bsky.social
A grassroots campaign to #SaveHealthcare and make Ontarians’ voices heard.
@dickzoutman.bsky.social
Proud Grandpa, Hubby, Dad, Infectious Disease Doc & Medical Microbiologist, Emeritus Professor @Queensu School of Medicine, Past Chief of Staff of 2 large health systems. Director Canadian COVIDSociety.ca johnsnowproject.org/editorial-group/
@covidecoles.bsky.social
Welcome to CovidEcoles:A citizen initiative, tracking COVID in schools and now your go-to thread for all things COVID and education Bienvenue à CovidEcoles :Initiative citoyenne, traquant la COVID-19 dans les écoles, devenue votre fil de référence COVID
@protectbc.bsky.social
Healthcare workers, researchers & advocates providing accurate COVID information & supporting evidence-based policies. #POPBC https://protectbc.ca
@jheighton3.bsky.social
Passionate BC teacher, activist. #COVIDisAirborne so ventilate, filtrate, mask up! Physics major. Co-Founder @Protect_BC @SafeSchoolsBC Mastadon: @jheighton3@zeroes.ca Twitter (X): @jheighton3 Always aware that I live on unceded Coast Salish territory.
@popns.bsky.social
Protect Our Province Nova Scotia is a community-care initiative focussed on reducing COVID transmission through evidence-based mitigation. popns.org Clean Air Library, HRM: bit.ly/HRMcleanair
@popnb.bsky.social
PoP NB (Protect our Province New Brunswick) is a grassroots volunteer driven advocacy group with the goal to create easy-to-access information on Covid-19. protectnb.ca
@safeschoolsbc.bsky.social
Parents, educators & concerned citizens advocating for evidence-based COVID-19 safety measures in British Columbia🇨🇦schools. Twitter: @SafeSchoolsBC Mastodon-@SafeSchoolsBC@zeroes.ca
@furnesscolin.bsky.social
Epidemiologist and COVID safety advocate. Associate Professor of Information (teaching stream), University of Toronto. My accordion made me do it. (he/him).
@garthmullins.bsky.social
Host @Crackdownpod.bsky.social VANDU veteran. Drugstore cowboy. Bestselling author. Policy analyst. Shop steward. Blind. Be safe-Keep 6
@yaneerbaryam.bsky.social
Complex Systems Physicist | President of NECSI, co-founder World Health Network (WHN) Author: Making Things Work (download pdf at https://necsi.edu/making-things-work)
@andreawoo.bsky.social
Vancouver steam clock critic, Globe and Mail journalist AndreaWoo@globeandmail.com instagram.com/andreawoo
@danyaalraza.com
family MD | UofT assistant professor | writing + research on health systems, primary care & possibilities for reform | danyaalraza.com
@sabivm.bsky.social
Doctor of Public Health candidate | MSc Pharmacology | Vohra Miller Foundation w @craigmillr | Unambiguous Science | South Asian Health Network | First Exposure
@michellegamage.bsky.social
Health reporter for TheTyee.ca. Covering local research, sex, toxic drugs, what your grandmother is up to, and all the different ways you can (but haven't yet) become dead in B.C.
@laurenpelley.bsky.social
Senior Health & Medical Reporter at CBC News. Currently on maternity leave. 📍Toronto ✉️ lauren.pelley@cbc.ca 💻 https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/author/lauren-pelley-1.4061052
@realnosferatu.bsky.social
That burning is pleasurable, that which enlightens the darkened path of others Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse LFC
@pennydaflos.bsky.social
CTV News Vancouver journalist & coffee enthusiast 🇨🇦 Reporting style: confrontation with a smile Big on BC issues, including healthcare #bcpoli #vanpoli
@crof.bsky.social
Retired college teacher, recovering novelist. Born 1941 (CO2: 310 ppm). Still doing journalism and walking the dog. I've been writing for @thetyee.ca for over 20 years. Blogging at H5N1 https://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/ since 2005.
@martinmckee.bsky.social
Prof of European Public Health LSHTM Co-Director European Observatory on Health Systems & Policy Member Independent SAGE Past President BMA & European Public Health Association Committed to 🇬🇧 rejoining 🇪🇺 #academicsky
@dgbassani.bsky.social
Widower dad of three. Problem-solver living an unsolvable problem. Fatuity loather. Epidemiologist learning about complexity and networks. Missing Turin. UofT
@caulfieldtim.bsky.social
Professor of health law and science policy, author, speaker, and commentator. #ScienceUpFirst Linktree: https://linktr.ee/caulfieldtim
@picardonhealth.bsky.social
André Picard is the health columnist at The Globe and Mail and the author of six bestselling books. I share stories and opinion pieces from a broad range of publications. Shares are not endorsements.
@amandalhu.bsky.social
Neighbour and pal to children, adults and nature. Pro-treating each other like we live in a society. I communicate about stuff for work and for fun (here, where my opinions are my own). She/her. 📍Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 (Calgary, Canada)
@lisaiannattone.bsky.social
@canadahealthwatch.ca
Curated-aggregator of health news from around the world, but with a Canadian focus. Visit us 🏡 https://canadahealthwatch.ca SUBSCRIBE: https://canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter
@kashprime.bsky.social
Emergency Physician in Toronto. Co-Chair of the Canadian Covid Society. Fighter of illness and misfortune, interested in history, politics, tech and AI. #fella,🇨🇦/acc
@docmcohen.medsky.social
rural Ontario family doc | writer | Queen's Family Medicine | OMA Women Committee | she/her Health equity, health policy, wellness pseudoscience, women's health, history of medicine. 🔗 https://informedopinions.org/view-expert-profile/?expert-id=45189
@deonandan.bsky.social
Professor, Epidemiologist, Research Chair in University Teaching. Teller of stupid jokes, Keeper of good hair, Servant to a 4-year old, Scourge of the ignorant. www.deonandan.com
@tryangregory.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do. He/him.
@joho.bsky.social
I love vaccines, animals, and my wife, who set up this profile. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-them-infected/
@jvipondmd.bsky.social
an emergency doctor desperately trying to save the future (and the present) for his children
@dfisman.bsky.social
Notorious pro-vaxxer and pro-masker. Famously unfair to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and the Toronto Star. Weary of all these death threats with so little follow-through. https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/fisman-david-n
@nicktsergas.ca
Editor @CanadaHealthwatch.ca ▪️"Obviously not a very good journalist." Work in Toronto Star, Canadian Affairs, Calgary Herald & Important Context Signal 💬 @nicktsergas.01 Portfolio 📁 https://muckrack.com/nicktsergas
@edyong209.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him 📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm Edyong.me
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Prof of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
@erictopol.bsky.social
physician-scientist, author, editor https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/ Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
@luckytran.com
Public Health, Climate Justice, and Science Communication. Bylines in the Guardian, Washington Post, and more. WHO Fides member. Grist 50 Fixer. Opinions my own and do not reflect those of my employer. http://linktr.ee/luckytran
@helenbranswell.bsky.social
I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Find me on Signal: HBranswell.01
@alonghurst.bsky.social
Health policy researcher, political economist, SFU PhD candidate. Research Associate, BC Policy Solutions. Health care finance & delivery, primary care, wait times, privatization. More: https://sites.google.com/view/andrew-longhurst