The Taylor Prize is awarded annually to a researcher whose work has made an important contribution to policy debates relevant to building a more socially-just Canada.
The winner of this year’s Taylor Prize is Greg Marchildon.
Greg is the Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics, and later served for five years at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.
In the 1990s, he was Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and subsequently Deputy Minister to the Premier and Cabinet Secretary in the Government of Saskatchewan.
He is the author of numerous journal articles and books on Canadian history, comparative public policy, public administration and federalism. From 2001-2002, he was executive director of a federal Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (also called the Romanow Commission).
The Romanow Commission recommended sweeping changes to the Canadian health care system to address wait times, inadequate services for Indigenous people, the high cost of prescription drugs, creeping privatization, rural access and most importantly upholding Canada’s three main health care principles: public administration, universality and accessibility.