Council Reports
On September 29, 2021, the C.D. Howe Institute invited trusted experts in both the public and private sectors to participate in a Special Policy Seminar on the sustainability and resiliency of Canada’s pharmaceutical supply chains and other issues surrounding domestic manufacturing.
The general consensus among participants found that improving emergency preparedness, increasing domestic manufacturing capacity, and investment in the monitoring of drug supply inventories would all be beneficial for supply chain resiliency. Beyond this, the participants agreed there is a role for government to provide leadership, oversight, and investment in vaccine development and manufacturing, while also promoting public policy that contributes…
October 28, 2020 – Canada’s healthcare system must learn the lessons of the first wave of COVID-19 and make the changes required to improve our capacity to tackle infectious disease outbreaks in future, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.
The Public Health and Emergency Measures Working Group notes as case numbers grow across Canada, insights from the first wave can be applied to better manage infection risks, while also minimizing social and economic disruption caused by public health and social distancing-related restrictions on activity.
The group of health academics, professionals and business leaders is co-chaired by Janet Davidson, Chair of the Board of the Canadian Institute for Health Information and C.…
June 2, 2020 — While Canada has invested in residential long-term care at similar levels to other countries, it has drastically under-invested in home and community-based care, according to the C.D. Howe Institute’s Crisis Working Group on Public Health and Emergency Measures. Long-term care and retirement homes are the center of the epidemic in Canada, with about 80 percent of COVID deaths having occurred in residential care facilities — a death rate much higher than most other nations.
Because a high proportion of seniors in Canada live in an institutional care setting, they are at a much higher risk of exposure, infection and death from COVID-19 than seniors living in the community or in the home. While there is…
