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Program: PhD (Human Geography)

Supervisor: Dr. Eugene McCann

Committee: Dr. Damien Contandriopoulos (University of Victoria); Dr. Kendra Strauss (¶¡ÏãÔ°AV)

Education

• MA, Geography, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
• Thesis: Policy Frontiers: City-Regional Politics of Poverty and Drug Policy Mobility
• BA (Hons.), Geography, University of British Columbia

Awards

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2020)

Research

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography. As a geographer and health policy researcher, my research is concerned broadly with the spatial, political-economic, and social dimensions of health care policymaking. I use a comparative political economy approach to study the movement and implementation of market-oriented health policy reforms and health services restructuring in Canada and the UK.

My doctoral research examines comparative primary care reform in British Columbia, England, and Scotland. The research seeks to explain how funding reforms in the three jurisdictions – including local experimentation ­­­­– are reshaping the roles of government, civil society, and the private sector in care provision and the governance of public health care systems. It seeks to understand what effects these changes have on citizens served by these public health care systems, and how political struggles over the marketization of public health care are expressed through, and influenced by, primary care reform. Using a mixed-methods, case study approach, this research seeks to explain how the political and economic aspects of primary care reform shape whether jurisdictions are successful – or not – in their efforts to improve population health and contain health care costs within a context of fiscal pressure.

I am also a research associate with the , and publish health policy and health services research on a variety of topics, including health care funding, privatization, surgical wait times, pandemic response, seniors’ care, physician compensation and primary care reform. I am a frequent commentator on health policy issues, and my research and commentaries have appeared in/on CBC News, CKNW, CTV, Global, The Globe and Mail, Healthy Debate, Policy Note, Policy Options, The Province, The Toronto Star, The Tyee, The Vancouver Sun, among others.

Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Banerjee, A., McGregor, M., Ponder, S., & Longhurst, A. (2021). . Canadian Journal on Aging 41(2), 264-272.

Sturm, T., Mercille, J., Albrecht, T., Cole, J., Dodds, K., & Longhurst, A. (2021). . Political Geography 91.

Ponder, C. S., Longhurst, A., and McGregor, M. (2020) . Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 39(4), 800-817.

Longhurst, A., Ponder, S., & McGregor, M. (2019). . In P. Armstrong & H. Armstrong (Eds.), The Privatization of Care: The Case of Nursing Homes (pp. 102-122). London: Routledge.

Longhurst, A., & McCann, E. (2017). Political struggles on a frontier of harm reduction drug policy: Geographies of constrained policy mobility. In S. Williams & B. Warf (Eds.), Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State: Ongoing Regulation, Resistance and Change (pp. 109-123).

London: Routledge. [Invited reprint from Space & Polity article]

Longhurst, A., & McCann, E. (2016). . Space & Polity, 20(1), 109-123.

Longhurst, A. (2012). Aestheticization and Consumption in Advanced Capitalism: The Woodward’s Redevelopment as a Landscape of Class Power. Trail Six 6, 2-18

Selected Research Reports

Longhurst, A. (2022). . Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives—BC Office. 15 pp.

Longhurst, A. (2020). . Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives—BC Office. 48 pp.

Longhurst, A., and Cohen, M. (2019). . Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives—BC Office. 9 pp.

Longhurst, A. (2019). . Policy Note. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives—BC Office.

Longhurst, A. (2017). . Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives—BC Office. 32 pp.

Longhurst, A., Cohen, M., McGregor, M. (2016). . Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives—BC Office. 56 pp.

Longhurst, A. (2014). . Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives—BC Office. 44 pp.

Selected Commentaries and Interviews

Lavergne, R., McCracken, R., Hedden, L., Contandriopoulos, Longhurst, A. (2022, Nov. 16). . The Globe and Mail.

Dellplain, M. (2022, Oct. 19). ? Healthy Debate.

Longhurst, A. (2022, Aug. 29). . The Tyee.

Daflos, P. (2022, Aug. 24). . CTV News Vancouver.

Owen, B. (2022, Jul. 13). . The Globe and Mail.

Longhurst, A. (2021, Dec. 18). . The Tyee.

Brown, J., Arya, A., Longhurst, A. (2021, Sep. 15). ? Policy Options.

Longhurst, A. (2020, Feb. 5). . The Vancouver Sun.