Lindsay Hedden

Dr. Lindsay Hedden is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar. As principal investigator of the Health Systems Research Lab, she examines primary care access crises with focus on marginalized communities. Her applied health services research addresses gaps in health data infrastructure and evaluates new primary care delivery models.

Education:

• PhD, Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
• MSc, Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia
• BS Hons, Health Studies, University of Waterloo

Her research program spans three areas: virtual care impacts on costs and accessibility; effects of healthcare corporatization on equity and quality; and interdisciplinary team-based primary care models. She employs diverse methods including administrative data analysis, patient/provider surveys, and policy analysis through partnerships with BC's Ministry of Health and health authorities.

Recent publications document rapid shifts to virtual care during COVID-19, administrative workload challenges, and innovative nursing roles in primary care. Her work highlights how privatization and corporatization affect healthcare accessibility while proposing solutions to improve system capacity and data infrastructure.

She serves as Treasurer for the Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation board and teaches graduate courses on Canadian health policy and health services research methods.