PRESENTATIONS, ARTICLES AND REPORTS
Over the last ten years, Chris Bonnett has been invited to speak at over 70 conferences and workshops across Canada and in the United States. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, including these comments from recent conferences:

• “Perhaps the best session I have attended.”

• “Best speaker in three days.”

• “Very well done! Audience participation and interaction brought great value.”

• “Very comprehensive presentation. Excellent.”

• “Excellent speaker. He made some great comments outside the slide.”

• “Very knowledgeable speaker. Answers questions thoroughly.”

• “Really good session; excellent delivery style.”

ARTICLES AND REPORTS
Chris has written and co-authored many articles, and has both led and participated in various group projects, Steering Committees, and Advisory Boards focusing on healthcare issues in Canada including:

• sanofi-aventis Healthcare Survey
  Chris was invited to join the Advisory Board in 2003. Since 1998, the Survey has polled over 18,000 Canadian benefit plan members on their views and perceptions of their healthcare plans. Chris has been the principal writer of the report since 2004.

• Submission to the Romanow Commission – CCIH
  As Chair of the Canadian Council on Integrated Healthcare, Chris played an active role in developing the CCIH submission to the Commission, and was invited to make a brief presentation to the Commission in April 2002.

• Discussion Paper on Workplace Health - CCIH
  Chris co-authored this authoritative and widely-cited report on healthy workplaces in collaboration with other members of the Canadian Council on Integrated Healthcare.

• Canadian Healthcare Manager - By the Numbers
  Chris collaborated with John Yardley, Director of Brock University’s Workplace Health Research Laboratory to describe the evidence, numbers and policy needs related to workplace health.

• Profits and Patients
  Canadian Healthcare Manager magazine gathered a group of leading thinkers to examine a wide range of issues concerning the role of the private sector in Canada’s healthcare system.

• Measuring and Managing the Health Cost Dilemma
  Chris worked with the Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan (OTIP) to measure the health cost burden at four school boards, and wrote this lead article in one of OTIP’s client publications.

• Raising the Value of Corporate Health
  Chris was one of the early proponents of comprehensive health strategies and programs in Canadian workplaces, and advocated a new role for insurance companies and others in the measurement and management of plan member health.

• Workplace Health: Emerging Discipline or (Still) Flavour of the Month?
  More organizations are talking the talk about investing in employee health, so why is it that few are walking the talk?

• Employees Open to Sharing Rising Costs of Benefits
  Recognizing that health care costs continue to rise, a majority of surveyed health benefit plan members say they have an obligation to help shoulder plan costs.

If you would like additional information on any of the above topics, or would like to discuss your upcoming conference needs, please contact us.

H3 | PROJECTS | CONTRIBUTIONS | LINKS | CLIENTS | EXPERTISE | CONTACT US