B.C. budget 2023: SFU experts available

The B.C. government will unveil its 2023 provincial budget today. Experts with Simon Fraser University 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’ 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’s Children’s Health Policy Centre                      
charlotte_waddell@sfu.ca                   
Expertise: Child and youth mental health, health policy, children’s rights

SENIORS

GLORIA GUTMAN, professor emerita, gerontology                   
gutman@sfu.ca                   
Expertise: Senior’s 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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