Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones, MD
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Dr. Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones is a Paediatrician specializing in social paediatrics and Project Investigator at SickKids and Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. She is also an expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca, a comprehensive and non-partisan online resource designed to help journalists covering health policy issues in Canada.

Blog Entries by Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones, MD

Hunger is Not a Game, Canada

(18) Comments | Posted May 15, 2012 | 4:50 PM

When a crow went down with West Nile virus somewhere in Ontario, my phone would ring. Practicing as an infectious disease specialist at the time, I was alerted to early warnings about threats to the public's health from infectious agents. Immediate response was expected -- and provided -- by our...

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Our Health System Is Failing Our Children

(0) Comments | Posted September 9, 2011 | 4:34 PM

In the last quarter century there's been an explosion in our understanding of child development. Unfortunately, all that new knowledge hasn't translated into improved child health. The fact is, far too many of our children are not doing well -- not at all well.

I never dreamed that after...

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