Lindsay Hedden, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Appointments
- Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
- Scholar, Michael Smith Health Research BC
Research Clusters
Research Interests
- Primary health care
- Team-based care
- Health workforce
- Health policy
- Equity
Short Bio
Lindsay Hedden, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, is an applied health services researcher and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. She is also a principal investigator for the Health Systems Research Lab. Dr. Hedden’s past and current work has involved exploring the drivers of and solutions to the primary care access crisis with a particular focus on communities experiencing marginalization. She has also worked to identify and address gaps in health system data use and data infrastructure, and has studied the impact of those gaps on primary care accessibility and workforce planning. Her current projects focus on new payment models for family physicians currently being integrated in British Columbia, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia; the impacts of virtual care on access, quality and system costs; interdisciplinary team-based models of primary care; and corporatization and privatisations of health systems. Dr. Hedden holds a PhD from the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, and is a past Post-Doctoral Health System Impact fellow with the BC Ministry of Health.
