The SPARK study is a CIHR-funded national study that was birthed out of the lack of data on social determinants of health in primary care settings in Canada. Healthcar...
Jane Cooney
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About
Jane Cooney is a retired Toronto business owner who worked in the international information and book industry for nearly 50 years. She is currently the Co-Chair of the Academic Family Health Team’s Patient and Family Advisory Council at St. Michael’s Hospital. She has worked as a volunteer in the Ontario health care world as a hospital board member, as a participant in a number of cancer-related research studies, and as a family care giver. Jane has also been a patient representative on the SPARK team since its inception more than 5 years ago.
Working with the team at the Upstream Lab has been an education and a revelation about the vital importance of addressing the socio-economic aspects of health care and finding solutions to the inequities currently in the system. Dr. Andrew Pinto and the team are on a continuous mission to accomplish this and I am privileged to be able to contribute my thoughts to the process.