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  Prof.
Heather MacDougall
Associate Dean of Arts for Graduate Studies and Research,
Univeristy of
Waterloo
Director, Canadian Centre of Arts and Technology
President, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine/La Société Canadienne
d’Histoire de la Médecine
Born and raised in Toronto, Heather MacDougall
completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University
of Toronto specializing in Canadian urban and social history. After
completing her dissertation on the development of public health services
in 19th century Toronto, she was commissioned to write a centennial
history of the city’s health department. Activists and Advocates:
Toronto's Health Department, 1883–1983 was published in
1990. Her subsequent research and writing have focused on topics in
public health and disease
prevention. She is currently researching and writing a study on the
role of the civil service in framing and implementing the proposals
for a national health insurance system from the 1940s to the present.
She has taught Canadian history at the University of Waterloo since
1985 and is presently serving as the Associate Dean of Arts for Graduate
Studies and Research, the Director of the Canadian Centre of Arts and
Technology, and the president of the Canadian Society for the History
of Medicine/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire de la
Médecine.
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