Dr. Pat Armstrong
Dr. Pat Armstrong is a sociology professor at York University, where
she has taught for 21 years. She has co-authored a large number of
articles and books on health policy. Recently-published books include
They Deserve Better: The long-term care experience in Canada and
Scandinavia, Critical to Care: The invisible women in health services,
and A Place to Call Home: Long term care in Canada.
Dr. Armstrong holds a Canadian Health Services Research
Foundation/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair in Health
Services and Nursing Research, where she is developing a graduate
program to train students in health policy and politics. Dr. Armstrong
is also the Chair of Women and Health Care Reform, a collaborative
group that brings together the four federally-funded Centres of
Excellence for Women’s Health and the Canadian Women’s Health Network.
Its mandate is to coordinate research on health reform across Canada,
to identify gaps in the research and take steps to fill those gaps, and
to translate this research into policies and practices.