Person-centred, practical, and creative solutions to real problems in the Canadian and international health sectors - Gallant HealthWorks & Associates (GHWA) is competitive, flexible and strategic while "engaging stakeholders in health." We have provided outstanding healthcare leadership, research and education services for years. Many of us have more than 20 years experience. All are highly qualified academically and professionally including a mix of:
> Certified Health Executives "CHE"
> MBA, MHA, MHK, MPH, MSc, PhD and other education credentials
> Various clinical qualifications
Our Networks & Collaborators Set Us Aside
GHWA expert network of associates, partners and collaborating companies spans Canada, the UK and beyond. These networks include others in the fields of healthcare, education, medicine, leadership, business and communication.
MEET A FEW OF US, OUR COLLABORATORS & ADVISORS
Paul Gallant, Principal Alissa Harrison, Associate Paulette Lacroix, Senior Consultant/Privacy Susan Lowe, Associate, Stakeholder Relations Nicole Snow
BIOS
Paul Gallant, CHE, PhD(c), MHK. Principal.Expertise includes: relationship and partnership building, leadership, community/stakeholder engagement, policy development, health promotion, knowledge translation, communication, workshop design & facilitation, multiculturalism/diversity, mental health & addictions (eating disorders, men's health), health equity, benchmarking, resource management, strategic planning, facilitation, mixed methods research, clinical skills, quality of work-life, mentorship, and business development.
Paul is an innovative Certified Health Executive (CHE) with 25+ years in healthcare, education and leadership fields, including substantial clinical experience across many populations. He is a mentor and elected Executive member of Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL), BC Lower Mainland Chapter, and liasion to UBC Centre for Health Care Management.
Paul has provided leadership to groups, consultancies and individuals; managed interdisciplinary resources in acute, community, educational, and residential settings; built partnerships, empowered others, championed diversity; served as President of a non-profit society and a professional association, plus served as a Board Member at Healthcare Leaders’ BC.
He incorporates knowledge translation and proven mixed methods approaches throughout his work. He has successfully engaged "difficult to reach" and multicultural stakeholders through multiple methods including workshops, focus groups, interviews, surveys, and media to inform, evaluate, and improve citizen's, patient's and provider's experience. He has informed healthcare policy across diverse groups with an emphasis in mental health and addictions, the community and in primary health care. He has helped connect and improve supplier/hospital relations in Western Canada through recent work with Advantage International and health authorities.
Paul's expertise, skills and approaches are equally applicable in working with senior leaders, citizens and grass roots stakeholders.
Much of Paul’s experience includes connecting expertise to achieve quality outcomes plus the recruitment, supervision, evaluation, and mentorship of multidisciplinary teams across complex programs or projects. Such programs have included provincial mental health at Providence Health Care in BC (eating disorders, chronic pain, reproductive psychiatry) and primary health services in BC health authorities.
He has presented at more than 30 conferences and his research generates significant awareness and media attention. See Research Publications. Presentation topics include: leadership, employee stress and health, embracing diversity, leadership and engaging stigmatized groups.
Paul's projects, clients and/or collaborators have included:
Provincial Health Services Authority
The University of British Columbia
Advantage International
INSITE Consultancy Inc., BC
Fraser Health Authority
BC Ministry of Health
Patient Voices Network/IMPACT BC
iCON UBC School of Medicine
CHSRF (Canadian Health Services Research Foundation)
Inspire People Group (UK)/UKTI British Consulate
Healthcare Leaders' Association of British Columbia (HCLABC)
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Small to large consultants' firms
The Access Group (Ontario)
Public Agenda Group Inc. (BC)
National & local media agencies
A national body for mental health information
Mentoring and coaching individuals (leadership and/or wellness)
A large Canadian law firm
Paul is a conduit and founder/manager of "Canada Health & Healthcare Consultants" a Linkedin professional group with more than 1000 members plus various Person Centred Health groups.
Watch Global National's 16:9 documentary Dying to be Thin (2011) for interviews with Paul about his research and leadership in field of men's health and eating disorders. See link on our News, Links, Networks page.
Paul is an "Approved Qualified Supplier of Communication for Ministry of Citizen's Services, British Columbia."
Below: A break during E-Mental Health Vancouver 2011: P.Gallant (L), Chris LaForge (MoH BC) & Susan Lowe (R). Photo Credit "aidanBOX"
Susan Lowe, Associate, Stakeholder Relations Expertise includes: stakeholder relationship-building, health promotion, program management, bilingual communication, needs assessment, group facilitation, counselling, and partnership-building.
Susan has 25 years of experience in health promotion, health education, project management, social research, employment programs, career counselling, and fund development for healthcare. She is passionate about community development, system improvement and stakeholder relations.
Susan
previously worked with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (CPSBC) and the Canadian Institute for
the Relief of Pain and Disability (CIRPD). As Manager, Health Promotion with the CIRPD she was instrumental in developing
and coordinating the Disability
Prevention & Management Collaborative (DPMC) and its work groups. She
fostered productive relationships with more than 120 diverse stakeholders,
including government agencies, health authorities and community partners to identify key challenges in creating safe, healthy and productive
workplaces plus collaboratively create action plans and initiatives to address
them.
She was also
responsible for planning and implementing CIRPD’s educational services. An
innovative and effective liaison among individuals and communities in need of
educational healthcare services and health professionals able to assist them,
Susan designed and developed the BC
Community and Consumer Health Education program, assessing provincial needs
and bringing doctors together with patients in diverse, often remote
communities.
As a Supervisor
for the 2010 Olympics, Susan managed transportation for more than 13,000 media
personnel to and from Cypress Mountain for Olympic events, continuously
improving system performance and client services, often in adverse conditions.
She trained and supervised others plus resolved ongoing problems and conflict.
She
taught Communicating Effectively with
Health Care Professionals for the Kitsilano Community Centre’s Community
Health Series and worked as volunteer leader with the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (UVic/VCHA), facilitating
empowering sessions for participants living with a variety of chronic
conditions.
While
living in Victoria from 2007-09, she served as Educational Director of the
Victoria Community Health Co-op, of which she was a founding member. She also accepted
interim roles in Victoria, including a social research contract with the CMHA
to research and write Factors
that Determine Success and Failure of BC Social Enterprises, exploring themes, trends and
options and enhance client services.
Prior
to entering the Health Promotion sector, Susan held increasingly responsible
positions in Career Development with five local organizations. She managed
employment programs, designed and delivered MBTI and career workshops and
counselling for francophones and for immigrants, negotiated contracts, and wrote
bilingual status reports for federal and provincial governments.
Originally
from Calgary, Susan received her BA from Université Laval in Québec. She received
a Management Development Certificate from the University of Calgary. She
relocated to Vancouver to accept a position at VGH – one of four heath care
fund development contracts she successfully completed. While later working in
Vancouver non-profit employment organizations, she studied Non-Profit and
Voluntary Sector Management at SFU, as well as Project Management at the University of British Columbia.
Alisa Harrison, PhD. Senior Consultant/Research Associate. Expertise includes: public policy, social determinants of health, health promotion, intersections of gender, race and health, best practice in mental health services delivery.
Known for her diversity of practice, Alisa’s background includes research, writing, project management, needs assessment, and group facilitation and training in a range of fields within the health and social sciences, and humanities. With a PhD in History and African American Studies from Duke University, and professional experience as Senior Researcher, British Columbia Ministry of Citizens’ Services, as well as in private consulting practice, she has led complex research initiatives in academia, and the public and private sectors.
Marie-Claude Biancardi & Paul Gallant Minister of Health's Event (BC), 2010
Fun. Health Achieve, Ontario: Paul & Nigel from Tribal UK, Taimour (Access Group), & Paul G.
OTHER ASSOCIATES & ADVISORS
Above: Camille Rozon & Paul Gallant at CCHSE Event, LEAN
Camille Rozon (l), Dr. Nancy Hall- recently passed away (c), Paul Gallant (r)
Paulette Lacroix (l), Dr. Nancy Hall (r), Participate in discussion at Person Centred Health Leadership Action Series, North American Telepresence. Hon. Elinor Caplan (on telepresence screen middle-left), Wayne Mills & others across North America)
Nicole Snow, BN, RN, MN, CPMHN(C), PhD(c). Associate.Expertise includes: mental health & addictions nursing, clinical education, qualitative research, and ethics. Nicole brings more than 12 years experience in mental health and addictions nursing from both a clinical and academic perspective. She works with the Centre for Nursing Studies and is Faculty Scholar, Centre for Collaborative Health professional Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN).
Lord Nigel Crisp, Former CEO National Health Services (NHS), England. Senior Expert Advisor.Expertise includes: International development, global health, senior leadership, authorship. Lord Crisp, works mainly on international development and global health. He was from 2000 to 2006 the Chief Executive of the NHS, the largest integrated health system in the world and Permanent Secretary of the UK’s Department of Health. More recently he has led and participated in international projects on global health and international development. He has written and presented extensively on health and development and his academic links and affiliations include being a Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge and of the Royal College of Physicians. He recently wrote "Turning the World Upside Down - the search for global health in the 21st century."
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Susan Lowe, Associate, Stakeholder Relations 
Marie-Claude Biancardi & Paul Gallant Minister of Health's Event (BC), 2010 
