Gregory Marchildon

Dr. Gregory P. Marchildon, PhD., is a Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic History at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, a provincial school with campuses at both the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan. He is also a Fellow at the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, and a member of the editorial board of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

Dr. Marchildon was Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Saskatchewan government in 1994 and Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Minister to the Premier in 1996. In 2001, he became the Executive Director of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, a federal royal commission examining the future of public healthcare in Canada. He was also the lead drafter on the Romanow Commission’s final report Building on Values released in November 2002.

Dr. Marchildon has written extensively on health systems, health policy , public administration and Canadian history. He is the author of Health Systems in Transition: Canada, co-published by the WHO on behalf on the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the University of Toronto Press in 2006. He is also the co-editor of three volumes published by the University of Toronto Press in 2004: The Fiscal Sustainability of Health Care in Canada; The Governance of Health Care in Canada; and Changing Health Care in Canada. His research interests include comparative health systems, health reform, health financing and Canadian Medicare.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) London School of Economics and Political Science (1987 — 1990)

Companies

• Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (2015)
• Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic HIstory (Tier 1), University of Regina Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (2003 — 2015)
• Executive Director, Royal Commission (Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada Government of Canada (2001 — 2002)
• Senior Fellow Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy (2000 — 2001)
• Deputy Minister to the Premier and Cabinet Secretary Government of Saskatchewan (1996 — 2000)
• Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Government of Saskatchewan (1994 — 1996)
• Assistant Professor of Canadian Studies and Economic History Johns Hopkins University SAIS (1989 — 1994)
• Lecturer in American Economic History London School of Economics (1988 — 1988)

Skills

• Analysis
• Statistics
• Quantitative Research

Other

International Development, Community Development, Speech Writing, Global Health, Public Management, Health Research, Public Administration, Community Outreach, Healthcare, Grant Writing, Literature Reviews, University Teaching, Research Design, Health Services Research, Proposal Writing, Politics, Canoeing, Data Analysis, Public Health, Report Writing, Policy Research, Strategic Communications, Program Development, Political Science, Strategic Planning, Nonprofits, Capacity Building, Health Policy, Teaching, Policy, Program Evaluation, Qualitative Research, Public Speaking, Government, Research, Policy Analysis, Public Policy