Pierre-Gerlier Forest

Pierre-Gerlier Forest is a professor of community health sciences and the director of the
School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, where he also holds the James S.
and Barbara A. Palmer Chair for the School of Public Policy. Prior to joining the University of Calgary, he served as director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy with the
Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. From 2006 to 2013,
Dr. Forest was president and CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, where he was
engaged in policy research in areas such as urban policy, immigration, social policy, and
health reform. Earlier in his career, he held prominent leadership positions with Health
Canada and the Canadian Minister of Health, where he was accountable for the quality and
integrity of scientific and regulatory research. He also served as research director for the
Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. He completed an MA (political
science) at Université Laval and a PhD (history and social studies of science) at Université
de Montréal. Dr. Forest is the author or co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed journal
articles and books, notably Changing Health Care in Canada (2004) and Paradigm Freeze
(2013). He has facilitated international workshops and participated in a variety of expert
panels, committees, and working groups. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health
Sciences. April 2017