Patrick Fafard
School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[ 1 ] - Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues
Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...
[ 2 ] - Policy Capacity Meets Politics; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”
It is difficult to disagree with the general argument that successful health reform requires a significant degree of policy capacity or that all players in the policy game need to move beyond self-interested advocacy. However, an overly broad definition of policy capacity is a problem. More important perhaps, health reform inevitably requires not just policy capacity but political leadership an...
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