Selected Policy & Systems Change Work
The following is a curated selection of policy reports, briefs, and position papers focused on housing, health equity, and human rights-based systems change that centre lived experience.
Housing & Homelessness
Understanding the Need for Supportive Housing (Ontario Alliance to End Homelessness)
Submission to the Build Canada Homes Consultation (Redwood Park Communities)
National Health & Social Policy Leadership
Timing Is Everything: Toward a national newborn screening program for rare disorders.
(Network of Rare Blood Disorder Organizations)
Progress Toward Viral Hepatitis Elimination in Canada (Action Hepatitis Canada)
State of HIV in Canada: Rights, Progress, and Unfinished Work (with the HIV Legal Network)
Prison Health is Public Health (AHC)
Systems Design, Surveillance, and Equity
National Hemovigilance: A Position Paper (NRBDO)
Newcomers, Immigration, and Rare Blood Disorders (NRBDO)
Understanding the Need for Supportive Housing (Ontario Alliance to End Homelessness)
- One-page policy brief outlining the evidence for supportive housing, with provincial policy asks to support rights-based housing solutions.
Submission to the Build Canada Homes Consultation (Redwood Park Communities)
- Federal consultation submission addressing affordable housing supply, non-profit housing development, and system-level barriers, grounded in the experience of a supportive housing provider.
National Health & Social Policy Leadership
Timing Is Everything: Toward a national newborn screening program for rare disorders.
(Network of Rare Blood Disorder Organizations)
- Policy report calling for a pan-Canadian approach to newborn screening; recommendations were adopted by the federal government and are now being implemented through the Drugs for Rare Diseases Strategy.
Progress Toward Viral Hepatitis Elimination in Canada (Action Hepatitis Canada)
- National progress report assessing Canada’s commitments and policy gaps related to viral hepatitis elimination, with equity-focused recommendations that, over time, has aligned the sector's policy asks effectively.
- Supporting analysis: interactive map comparing provincial and territorial HCV testing policies, developed to inform provincial/territorial policy discussions.
State of HIV in Canada: Rights, Progress, and Unfinished Work (with the HIV Legal Network)
- National report analyzing trends, policy implications, and gaps in Canada’s HIV response through a human rights lens.
Prison Health is Public Health (AHC)
- Policy report examining the intersection of corrections, health systems, and public health, with recommendations to improve outcomes and reduce inequities.
Systems Design, Surveillance, and Equity
National Hemovigilance: A Position Paper (NRBDO)
- Policy paper outlining the need for improved national surveillance and accountability mechanisms within Canada’s blood system.
Newcomers, Immigration, and Rare Blood Disorders (NRBDO)
- Policy report examining barriers newcomers and immigrants face in accessing care for rare blood disorders, with recommendations to improve equity and system responsiveness.
