CMA Health Summit 2025: The politics of change

Hundreds of physicians, patients, caregivers and health leaders joined the CMA’s national forum for changemakers in March – this year focused on Canada’s rapidly evolving political landscape nd how to keep health care at the top of the national agenda.

Highlights included a discussion on the impact of U.S. policy on Canadian health care moderated by Globe and Mail columnist André Picard with Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and science and global health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli from The New York Times, followed by a panel with CMA President Dr. Joss Reimer, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier, the Hon. Dr. Andrew Furey, Manitoba Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Seniors and Long-term Care, the Hon. Uzoma Asagwara, and Ontario Deputy Premier and Health Minister, the Hon. Sylvia Jones.

Other sessions touched on navigating the AI revolution in a safe and responsible way, with Dr. Daniel Yang, overcoming bias to engage in “radical collaboration,” with science educator and co-host of The Nature of Things Anthony Morgan, and models of Indigenous self-determination in health care with Dr. Michael Dumont, Treena Wasonti:io Delormier, Jennifer Petiquay-Dufresne, Dr. Brent Young and Elder Debbie Eisan.

Read highlights from the event. Watch videos from the conference.

About the Health Summit

The Health Summit brings together physicians, medical learners, people with lived experience and other partners across the health sector who want to create a better system for all.

The 2023 Health Summit explored What Health Care Should Be, with guests including federal Health Minister Mark Holland, climate researcher Dr. Courtney Howard, pollster Shachi Kurl from the Angus Reid Institute, patient partner Robin McGee, and health law and policy professor and author Timothy Caulfield.

Previous keynote speakers have included Dr. Verna Yiu, former president/CEO of Alberta Health Services, Dr. Jane Philpott, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of the School of Medicine at Queen’s University, and Dr. Jillian Horton, an award-winning physician, musician, writer and podcaster.
 

People with lived experience participated in the design and planning of this CMA Health Summit.  Read more about the Patients Included™ conference charter .