Health policy related to medicines matters: to patients, their families and their advocates; to healthcare providers; to medical researchers and academia; to industry; as well as to governments. Health policy questions can stimulate unique perspectives and debate; evolution and improvement can depend on learning and understanding all viewpoints.

PolicyMatters.ca is a new, Canadian online forum featuring brief essays by invited contributors on a selected health policy theme/topic.

Developed and hosted by Amgen Canada, the objective of PolicyMatters.ca is to provide a publicly-accessible forum for a diverse group of leaders to express their informed opinions on Canadian policy areas of mutual interest. Amgen Canada is one contributor to the site.

This site’s principles are simple: transparency in development; diversity of viewpoints; responsible moderation, in keeping with the spirit of informed debate; topics of relevancy to Canadians; and finally, commitment to timely response to comments and questions.