Mental Health Supports for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

Linda is a semi-retired high school performing arts teacher. Her recent involvement with the Pharmacogenomics (PGx) for Depression project allowed a deep dive into genetics, health economic modeling, and the opportunity to become a patient researcher. She strongly believes in the value of People with Lived Experience becoming agents of change in all aspects of transforming health care. Overall, she enjoys spending time with her friends and family, the visual and performing arts, mindfulness, experiencing the outdoors, travel, social justice, and improved and equitable health care.

Fiona Clement has extensive training in Health Services Research, Health Economics and Health Policy. She is the Director of the Health Technology Assessment Unit within the O’Brien Institute of Public Health, University of Calgary; a policy responsive research unit that completes evidence synthesis, economic evaluations, health technology assessments and reassessments in response to decision-makers’ needs. Her research interests include drug and non-drug technology reimbursement and cost containment policy, evidence in decision-making, and evidence in health policy development.

Dr. Clement was selected as the Canadian Harkness fellow in 2014; a unique opportunity to study US healthcare policy. She has also received the Maurice McGregor Award for outstanding leadership and excellence in HTA in Canada. She is the first from Alberta to be awarded either of these awards. As a result, in 2015, she was named one of Calgary’s Top 40 under 40 for her work in health policy.