Hugh Armstrong (PhD) is a Professor in the School of Social Work and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa.  With Pat Armstrong, he has numerous publications, including Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care (2010), The Double Ghetto: Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work (2010), Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services (2008), and About Canada: Health Care (2008).

Pat Armstrong (PhD) is a Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology at York University in Toronto, where she holds a CHSRF/CIHR Chair in Health Services and Nursing Research.  The author or co-author of numerous books, book chapters and journal articles on women and work, the welfare state, health care and women’s health, she is the Principal Investigator for a major research project entitled “Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices”.

Maureen Baker (PhD) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. She worked as an academic and researcher in Canada and Australia before moving to New Zealand in 1998. She is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on comparative social policy, women and work, and family trends and policies.

Albert Banerjee (PhD) was recently awarded a Diploma in Health Services and Policy Research and a PhD in Sociology at York University,

where his dissertation was entitled “On the Frontlines: Structural Violence in Canadian Long-term Residential Care”.  For the past four years he has participated on an international research team exploring working conditions Canadian and Nordic European long-term care facilities.

Toba Bryant (PhD) is an assistant professor of health studies at the University of Toronto and an associate of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bryant is author of An Introduction to Health Policy published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. She is first editor of the contributed volume, Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness and Health Care, also published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. She has also published numerous book chapters and articles on public policy change, housing and health policy, and women's health and quality of life.

Tamara Daly (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management, and is appointed to the graduate programs in Health Policy and Equity, Women’s Studies, and Critical Disability Studies at York University.  She conducts international, comparative research on long-term care, focused on gender and work organization.

Natasha Jategaonkar (MSc) is a researcher working at the intersection of research, advocacy, and policy. She has conceptualized, implemented, and directed action-oriented research projects aimed at engaging community partnerships, serving vulnerable populations, and contributing to greater knowledge of substance use, housing, and women’s health. She has extensive experience in applying community-based research methods at the local, national, and international levels. In her current capacity as Research Director for the BC Non-Profit Housing Association, she leads the development and ongoing management of research projects both with and for BC’s non-profit housing sector and relevant stakeholders. 

Pamela Ponic (PhD), is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and the BC Centre of Excellence in Women’s Health. Her program of research examines the relationships between systemic power inequities and women’s access to health promoting resources, recently with a focus on how housing and related determinants affect women’s health after leaving abusive relationships. She is particularly interested in how multi-method community-based research processes can effect policy and community change.

Elizabeth McGibbon (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Science at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Publications and CIHR, CHSRF, and NSHRF funded studies focus on bringing a critical perspective to conventional health field knowledge: political economy of health and the social determinants of health; tackling health inequities through Public Health systems strengthening; human rights and health; access to health services; gender, racism and health; and the spatial contexts of oppression. Her forthcoming contributed volume, Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health, will be published by Fernwood Press in fall 2011.

Charmaine McPherson (PhD) is an Associate Professor the School of Nursing at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Her applied health research program focuses on health systems strengthening through primary health care, including issues related to service access, the social determinants of health, and interprofessional and cross-sectoral networks and collaboration issues. Her publications and presentations focus on analyzing policy and practice barriers and renewed options for strengthening public service systems to improve health and well-being outcomes for traditionally marginalized and underserviced people.

Jyotsana Shukla (PhD) is Senior Lecturer at Amity Institute of Behavioral and Allied Sciences at Amity University in Viraj Khand, Gomti Nagar.

Marta Szebehely (PhD) is a Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University.  Her research interests include gender, social policy and care, and in particular the consequences of changing public policies on the everyday lives of frail older women, their family members and paid care workers.  Within the Nordic Centre of Excellence REASSESS (Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model) she is responsible for research on Care in Aging and Diversifying Societies.