Bio: Diane Watson, a 2006–07 Canadian Associate of The Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy, has a background in health policy, management and evaluation and business administration. She holds a faculty position at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at the University of British Columbia and is a research associate of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy at the University of Manitoba. She was previously director of research and analysis at the Health Council of Canada and, prior to that, associate director of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Watson received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and her M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario and Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
Project: Primary Health and Chronic Illness Care: Canadians Report on Quality and Outcomes
Description: Diane Watson worked on a project to report experiences that Canadians, particularly those with chronic health conditions, have with primary care and care for chronic illness. This was explored through analysis of a 2007 nationally representative survey, undertaken by Statistics Canada. Participants were selected from those who completed the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey, allowing for data linkage across the two years.