Tracking doctors over borders
Dr. David Wright, Canada Research Chair in the History of Health Policy, leads a team investigating the transnational migration of physicians in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly from poorer to richer countries. This migration has become a critical issue in global health policy and ethics.
Wright’s work lies at the intersection of the history of medicine, history of health policy and immigration history. He and his team focus on two large, inter-related projects: the “brain drain” of doctors and medical researchers from Canada to the United States; and how the migration of doctors to Canada has affected three countries of origin.