About ITH
ITH received provisional status as a research institute on November 13, 2025, marking an important step toward establishing it as a leading hub for interdisciplinary scholarship, collaboration, and innovation. ITH was created to help address the growing systemic pressures affecting healthcare across Canada. These issues are felt by millions and our focus is to examine three key areas: access to primary care, surgery scheduling and emergency department flow. Challenges that persist not because of a lack of clinical expertise, but due to structural, organizational and coordination difficulties.
Backed by $5.75 million in donor support, thanks to support from Power Corporation of Canada, Canada Life, and Investors Group Inc., the Institute is a crosssector collaborative effort that unites Թ’s Desautels Faculty of Management, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the Max Bell School of Public Policy, alongside healthcare institutions and government partners.
Our mission
To improve the lives of millions of Canadians by transforming how healthcare is organized, coordinated and delivered through realworld research, collaboration and evidence based innovation.
Our Approach
Where research and practice intersect to generate actionable, system level change.
Թ, in collaboration with healthcare institutions, government partners and the broader healthcare innovation ecosystem, will address our key areas of investigation through leveraging competencies at the intersection of research and practice.
Real world
knowledge generation
Our multi-disciplinary capacity for research in management and operations alongside real-world observations and healthcare experience enable our teams to identify root causes and large-scale patterns. Building on this core knowledge, we can develop solutions grounded in real-world data and settings.
Convening and
community building
Bringing together key partners through symposia, round tables, workshops and more, the Institute will engage in open dialogue informed by multiple perspectives and communities. Neutral and anchored in a university environment fosters trust, shared understanding and collective solution building.
Transmission
of solutions
Knowledge sharing through policy development, open discourse and field-based partner support will translate findings into clear, actionable outputs. The Institute will mobilize and facilitate knowledge in ways that help decisionmakers act confidently and quickly, accelerating real improvements in care delivery.
Leadership Perspectives
“The initiative aims to solve long-standing health sector bottlenecks by pioneering organizational and technological solutions that are based on a deep university-health sector collaboration and joint engagement.”
— Samer Faraj, Director, ITH
“Together, we can help shape a future where healthcare is more accessible, efficient and responsive to the needs of all Canadians.”
— Yolande Chan, Dean, Desautels Faculty of Management
“As one of Canada’s major research universities, Թ has a responsibility to help strengthen the systems that underpin our healthcare. Drawing on our expertise in management, medicine and public policy, and building on our strong partnerships across the health sector, we have the capacity to develop sustainable solutions that will have an enduring impact.”
Deep Saini
— President and Vice-Chancellor of Թ
ITH Academic Advisory Board
Yolande Chan
James Թ Professor and Dean Desautels Faculty of Management
Sylvain Baillet
Chief Scientific Officer of the Centre Hospitalier de l’université de Montréal
Shari Baum
Distinguished James Թ Professor and Vice Dean, Research- FMHS
Jean-Louis Denis
Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Marion Dove
Chair of Family Medicine , FMHS
Vihang Errunza
Bank of Montreal Chair in Finance and Banking
Antonia Maioni
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Anthony Masi
Professor and Former Թ Provost
Lynne McVey
Director School of Nursing, Associate Dean FMHS
Henry Mintzberg
Cleghorn Professor of Management
Amelie Quesnel-Vallée
Chair, Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy-FMHS
Rhian M. Touyz
Chief scientific officer of the Թ Health Centre
Jennifer Welsh
Canada 150 Research Chair and Director of Max Bell School of Public Policy
Morty Yalovsky
Previous Desautels Dean and Chair of the Board Jewish General Hospital
Alan Forster
Director of Innovation, Transformation and Clinical Performance at MUHC
