Beyond Access: Policy Challenges and Pathways for Equitable Healthcare

This roundtable convenes researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders to engage in a structured dialogue on the systems shaping healthcare access for immigrants, refugees, and refugee claimants in Ottawa.

Purpose

This session creates space for critical dialogue across sectors to examine how policy, governance, and service delivery interact to produce inequities. The focus is not only on access, but on the structural conditions that shape it.

Key Themes

Policy fragmentation across IFHP and provincial systems, coordination challenges across levels of government, service delivery constraints, and the role of lived experience in shaping equitable policy responses.

Format

Short panel interventions followed by moderated dialogue and audience engagement. The aim is to surface diverse perspectives and generate shared insight across research, policy, and practice.

Guiding Question

How do current policy and governance structures produce—and potentially mitigate—health inequities for newcomers?

Outcomes

The roundtable generates collective reflection, identifies priority challenges, and surfaces directions for policy and system-level change.

Next Step

This discussion continues in a hands-on setting focused on translating insights into action.

Lunch will be provided for the first 15 registered participants. To register, please send an email to enisr013@uottawa.ca.