Decision-maker Partners

The WRTC has developed strong linkages with decision-makers from a variety of health-care settings located throughout western Canada and at the national level. Decision-makers may be involved in hosting field placements, participating on site advisory committees, reviewing student admissions, teaching seminars and courses, and participating on student thesis/dissertation committees.

Most notably, decision-makers play an invaluable role in providing students with exemplary field placements. Among others, these have included mid- to senior-level decision-makers at the following agencies:

  • British Columbia Ambulance Service, Vancouver
  • British Columbia Association for Community Living, Vancouver
  • British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver
  • Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Ottawa
  • Canadian Mental Health Commission, Calgary
  • Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, UBC, Vancouver
  • Fraser Health, Surrey
  • Health Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of BC, Vancouver
  • Health Canada, Policy and Intergovernmental Relations, Vancouver
  • Interior Health, Kelowna
  • Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg
  • Health Canada, Population and Public Health Branch, Winnipeg
  • Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
  • Manitoba Follow-up Study/Veterans Affairs Canada, Winnipeg
  • Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver
  • Vancouver Island Health, Victoria
  • WorkSafeBC