Speaker Biography

Colleen Flood

Colleen M. Flood is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Toronto and is cross-appointed into the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.

She is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. She is also the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes for Health Services and Policy Research - Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. Professor Flood obtained her B.A. and LL.B.(Honours) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and her LL.M. and SJD from the University of Toronto, Canada. Her primary area of scholarship is in comparative health care policy, public/private financing of health care systems, health care reform, and accountability and governance issues more broadly.

She has been consulted on comparative health policy and governance issues by both the Senate Social Affairs Committee studying health care in Canada and by the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission).