Governance & Regulation

COVID-19 Impacts on the Mental Health and Substance Use Health (MHSUH) Workforce in Canada (November, 2021)

CIHR Standards for Mental Health Servies Initiative

CHWN Leads Kathleen Leslie, Ivy Bourgeault, and Mary Bartram are currently principal investigators on a CIHR funded study on regulatory standards for the mental health and substance use health workforce.  

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded studies

Governance and regulation research projects include Regulating Professionals in Virtual Practice: Protecting the Public Interest in Rapidly Changing Digital Workplaces and Professional Regulation in the Digital Era: Modernizing Regulatory Practices in the Public Interest.

WHO Research on the Design, Reform and Implementation of Health Practitioner Regulation across Countries

CHWN Leads Ivy Bourgeault and Kathleen Leslie are members of an international team completing a World Health Organization project on the global design, reform, and implementation of health practitioner regulation. 

IHWC Country Roundtables Canada - The Pandemic and the Health Workforce Research on Impacts and Responses in Canada (May, 2022)

Setting a Research Agenda for Health Workforce Regulation and Governance in Canada (October, 2020)

There are no presentations at this time.

Regulating During Crisis: A Qualitative Comparative Case Study of Nursing Regulatory Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic (April, 2023)

Protecting the public interest while regulating health professionals providing virtual care: A scoping review (April, 2023)

Regulating for-profit virtual care in Canada: Implications for medical profession regulators and policy-makers (November, 2022)

Pan-Canadian registration and licensure of health professionals: A path approach emerging from a Best Brains Exchange policy dialogue (August, 2022)

Regulating health professional scopes of practice: comparing institutional arrangements and approaches in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK (January, 2021)