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B.C. budget 2023: 51猎奇入口experts available
The B.C. government will unveil its 2023 provincial budget today. Experts with 51猎奇入口 are available to discuss various budget-related topics such as affordability, housing and health care.
ECONOMICS
STEEVE MONGRAIN, professor, economics
mongrain@sfu.ca
Expertise: Tax policy, capital allocation, price competition
HOUSING
ANDREY PAVLOV, professor, Beedie School of Business
apavlov@sfu.ca
Expertise: Housing, economic policies, the provincial economy
HEALTH POLICY
ANDREW LONGHURST, PhD candidate, geography
arlonghu@sfu.ca
Expertise: Health care funding, privatization, surgical wait times, pandemic response, seniors鈥� care, physician compensation and primary care reform
KAREN PALMER, adjunct professor, health sciences
kpalmer@sfu.ca
Expertise: Comparative health care financing and delivery systems, policies, reforms, pandemic communications, health care as a human right
MENTAL HEALTH
NICOLE CATHERINE, assistant professor, health sciences, Canada Research Chair Tier II in Child Health Equity and Policy
nicole_catherine@sfu.ca
Expertise: Children's health policy, child social and emotional and cognitive development
THEODORE COSCO, associate professor, gerontology
tcosco@sfu.ca
Expertise: Healthy aging, social support, social isolation, loneliness, lifestyle behaviors (e.g. physical activity); Mental health: wellbeing, quality of life, depression, anxiety
CHARLOTTE WADDELL, professor, health sciences & director, SFU鈥檚 Children鈥檚 Health Policy Centre
charlotte_waddell@sfu.ca
Expertise: Child and youth mental health, health policy, children鈥檚 rights
SENIORS
GLORIA GUTMAN, professor emerita, gerontology
gutman@sfu.ca
Expertise: Senior鈥檚 housing, long term care, health promotion, age-friendly hospitals and communities
CONTACT
MELISSA SHAW, SFU Communications & Marketing
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca
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