Colleen M. Flood

Summary

Colleen M. Flood FRSC FCAHS is the Dean of Queen's University Faculty of Law. [1]

Colleen M. Flood

Academic background
EducationUniversity of Auckland (BA, LL.B)
University of Toronto (MA,PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
InstitutionsUniversity of Ottawa

Prior to this, Dr. Flood was a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa and University Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. She is also the Director for the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. In addition, Flood served as a Professor at the University of Toronto and Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Since 2013, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research has awarded a prize in the name of Flood and Morris Barer to recognize a researcher who has made a significant impact on health services and policy research, policy, and/or care delivery.

Education edit

Flood earned her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (with honors) at the University of Auckland before moving to study at the University of Toronto where she earned her Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science.[2]

Career edit

In 1999, she was named the Labelle Lecturer in Health Services Research[3] and was hired by the University of Toronto as a professor with an interest in health law.[4] Later, her work has helped influence government policy making on health care. Her article on the Romanow Commission, co-authored by Sujit Choudhry, criticized the Canada Health Act and was cited in the 2002 Canadian Health Care system report by Michael J. L. Kirby.[5] In 2004, Flood was appointed a Senior Fellow of Massey College.[3]

In 2005, Flood and fellow University of Toronto faculty members Kent Roach and Lorne Sossin co-edited a book titled "The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance in Canada."[6] That same year, she was named an editor of a newly formed quarterly journal, Healthcare Policy.[7] While working as an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Toronto in 2006, Flood was appointed the new Scientific Director of Health Services and Policy Research within Canadian Institutes of Health Research.[8] That same year, she edited a book titled "Just Medicare: What's In, What's Out, How We Decide" which discussed Canadian health law and policy based on conferences held at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.[9] In 2007, Flood was awarded the Jerry Lee Lectureship as part of the 7th Annual International Campbell Collaboration Colloquium. She was the first woman and Canadian to earn this Lectureship.[3]

While with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Flood increased funding for health policy and research by creating a program called “Evidence on Tap.” The program, which was piloted in Saskatchewan, Ontario, and New Brunswick, involved health researchers meeting with government personnel to discuss where they needed research evidence.[10] This led to the creation of the Evidence Informed Healthcare Renewal program. In 2011, Dr. Robyn Tamblyn replaced Flood as Scientific Director.[11] She then took a sabbatical before returning to the University of Toronto.[10]

Since 2013, the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research has awarded a prize in the name of Flood and Morris Barer to recognize a researcher who has had a significant impact on health services and policy research, policy, and/or care delivery.[12][13] That same year, Flood was named an honorary member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.[3] In 2014, Flood was hired by the University of Ottawa for their Faculty of Law[14] although she maintained her position as Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Law for the University of Toronto until 2015.[15] She also simultaneously served on the board of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and as chair of their Scientific Advisory Committee.[3][16]

In 2016, Flood was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her impact on health care and policies.[17] In 2018, while serving as the Director for the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, Flood was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.[18]

Publications edit

List of publications:[19]

  • Accountability of health service purchasers: comparing internal markets & managed competition in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and the United States (1997)
  • Advanced health law : public policy and regulation (1998)
  • Legal constraints on privately-financed health care in Canada : a review of the ten Provinces (2000)
  • A patients' Bill of Rights: a cure for Canadians' concerns about medicare? (2002)
  • Prescriptions from down under: can Canada import Australia's pharmaceutical benefits scheme? (2002)
  • International health care forum: a legal, economic and political analysis (2002)
  • What is in and out of Medicare?: Who decides? (2004)
  • The boundaries of Canadian medicare : the role of Ontario's Physician Services Review Committee (2004)
  • Access to care, access to justice (2005)
  • Health system law and policy (2006)
  • Legislating and litigating health care rights (2006)
  • Data data everywhere: access and accountability? (2011)
  • The right to health at the public/private divide: a global comparative study (2014)
  • Law and mind: mental health law and policy in Canada (2016)
  • Administrative law in context (2018)
  • Universal pharmacare and federalism: policy options for Canada (2018)

References edit

  1. ^ "Queen's appoints Colleen M. Flood as Dean of Law | Queen's Law".
  2. ^ "Health Law & Policy Seminar - Colleen Flood". law.utoronto.ca. October 27, 2011. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Dr Colleen Flood". cfpc.ca. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  4. ^ "Health Law and Policy Chairs". law.utoronto.ca. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  5. ^ "Professors Flood and Choudhry cited in recent Senate report on health care". law.utoronto.ca. November 18, 2002. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  6. ^ "Profs Flood, Roach and Sossin Health Law Book Available". law.utoronto.ca. November 22, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  7. ^ "Prof. Colleen Flood Appointed an Editor of New Health Journal". .law.utoronto.ca. May 5, 2005. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  8. ^ "Dr. Colleen M. Flood Appointed New Scientific Director of CIHR's Institute of Health Services and Policy Research". canada.ca. April 27, 2006. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  9. ^ "Faculty of Law Launches Two Influential Books on Health Law and Policy". law.utoronto.ca. May 1, 2006. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  10. ^ a b Lucianna Ciccocioppo (2011). "Taking it to the streets". law.utoronto.ca. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  11. ^ "IHSPR Scientific Director: Dr. Robyn Tamblyn". cihr-irsc.gc.ca. January 2011. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  12. ^ "CIHR co-names prize after Prof. Flood". law.utoronto.ca. October 3, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  13. ^ "CIHR Barer-Flood Prize for Health Services and Policy Research". cihr-irsc.gc.ca. 12 November 2012. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  14. ^ "Four New Professors Hired at the Common Law Section". commonlaw.uottawa.ca. May 11, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  15. ^ "Professor Colleen M Flood". events.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  16. ^ "IHSP ADVISORY BOARD". mcgill.ca. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  17. ^ "The Royal Society of Canada Welcomes Three New Fellows from the Faculty of Law". commonlaw.uottawa.ca. September 7, 2016. Archived from the original on March 25, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  18. ^ "Colleen M. Flood Elected to Canadian Academy of Health Sciences". commonlaw.uottawa.ca. September 14, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  19. ^ "Flood, Colleen M." worldcat.org. Retrieved March 24, 2019.