17 April 2018 - The 2018 CADTH Symposium officially kicked off in Halifax with a panel of senior healthy policy leaders discussing a broad range of issues, including Canada’s opioid crisis, and how we can improve access to health care services for Indigenous Peoples.

“We see an incremental movement happening within Indigenous communities across the country to assert their rightful role in managing and delivering services,” said Keith Conn, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister of Regional Operations at Indigenous Services Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. “We have some clear evidence that, when these situations occur, there have been improved health outcomes.”

In describing some of the positive changes that have taken place to date, Conn pointed to the 2013 transfer of the entire infrastructure for the health of British Columbia’s First Nations from Health Canada to the British Columbia First Nations Health Authority.

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