Gregory P. Marchildon is Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design and Professor at the Institute of Health, Policy and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He also has a teaching cross-appointment at the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, a member of the editorial board of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and an originating member of the Pan-Canadian Health Reform Analysis Network (PHRAN).