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Bob Gardner

Equity-Focused Evaluation

To effectively implement health equity strategies and quality-driven reform, it is crucial to know how well — and how — policies and service interventions are working. An important part of equity strategy must be evaluating what initiatives are most effective in addressing  access and quality barriers, enhancing services for the most vulnerable and reducing overall health disparities.

Sanjeev Sridharan of the Centre for Research on Inner City Health developed Evaluation Matters: a series of workshops on evaluation of complex social and policy issues.  I presented one session on health equity strategy as an illustration; one part of this was setting out key challenges for evaluation that can help to ground and guide health equity interventions.

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Bob Gardner

Bob Gardner

Bob Gardner was the Director of Policy at Wellesley Institute, 2006-2014. His expertise was in health equity policy working with governments, LHINs, service provider networks, and community partners to develop effective strategies and action plans to enhance health equity. He served on many health policy advisory forums, working groups and boards. Bob has a Ph.D. in sociology; has been an academic, public sector executive and consultant; and has been a community activist on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and other issues

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We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.