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Bob Gardner

Local Integrated Health Networks: Potential, Challenges, And Policy Directions

This paper provides a detailed background on the LHINs initiative, including: lessons for Ontario the experiences of other provinces with regional planning and delivery; analysis of key challenges and opportunities the initiative will face; policy directions and alternatives that can achieve an integrated and equitable health care system.

The analysis and recommendations of this paper are summarized in Local Integrated Health Networks: Potential, Challenges, and Policy Directions: Summary Report.

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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.