Pat Armstrong is co-author or editor of more than a dozen books on health care, and she has also published on a wide variety of issues related to women's work and to social policy. Currently CHSRF/CIHR Chair in Heath Services and Nursing Research at York University, she has served as chair of the Department of Sociology at York and director of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. She was a founding partner of the 'National Network on Environments and Womens Health http://www.yorku.ca/hschair/www.yorku.ca/nnewh, and is the chair of Women and Health Care Reform, a working group on health reform. Her CIHR-funded project compares conditions in Canada's long-term care facilities with those in Nordic countries, which is the first step in a longer research program.

Like most of her past research, this project relies primarily on the perspectives of those who actually provide or manage care within the system. Armstrong is a board member of the Canadian Health Coalition http://www.healthcoalition.ca/ and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives http://www.policyalternatives.ca/. Hugh Armstrong is a professor in the School of Social Work and in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Council on Aging of Ottawa and on the Community Advisory Committee of the Ottawa Hospital.

His books include About Canada: Health Care (Halifax and Winnipeg: Ferwood Books, 2008) and, with Pat Armstrong, Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care, Second Edition (Oxford), also recently reissued in a Wynford edition. His research interests include women and work, unions and public policy, and the political economy of health and health care.