# Avis Favaro
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avis favaro (born February, 1960) is Canada's longest serving on air medical correspondent – now with CTV National News since 1992. She has won numerous awards including a Gemini Award.
Favaro previously worked as medical correspondent for the Global Television Network where she began her career in 1982 as a writer/reporter.
Dr. Reimer’s First Shift: Canada’s New Chief Public Health Officer
How do you safeguard Canada’s public health in an era of unprecedented upheaval — from the growth of health misinformation and conspiracy theories to advice from Dr. Google and looming pandemics? That is the role of Canada’s new chief public health officer, Dr. Joss Reimer — a physician from Manit…
A Critical Moment for Canada: Ensuring World-Leading Access to Innovative Medicines
While Canadian researchers are making incredible biomedical breakthroughs in labs across the country, our capacity to bring those medicines to patients and their health care teams is inefficient, complex and fragmented.
The challenges that currently shape Canada’s access environment are being ex…
Unpacking the Inaugural Canadian Health Perspective Research
In this deep dive, veteran health journalist Avis Favaro sits down with Nik Nanos (Nanos Research) and Patrick Nelson (Santis Health) to break down the inaugural Santis-Nanos Canadian Health Perspective - a national survey tracking public sentiment on health care delivery, priorities, and system i…
Canada, U.S. nowhere near deal as CUSMA deadline approaches: U.S. Ambassador
Vassy goes 1-on-1 with U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra, who says there's little chance of a deal on trade before the July 1st CUSMA review deadline.
On today's show:
CTV News Medical Correspondent Avis Favaro reports on a new Canadian study showing less treatment may result in the same…
The Canary in the Coal Mine: Emergency Department Wait Times
New data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows emergency departments are dealing with a record high number of visits, 16.1 million and climbing. And more numbers reveal the pressures that are leaving patients stuck in emergency departments for hours or days, putting them and hea…
Nursing Home Without Walls
What if the future of long-term care isn’t about moving seniors into nursing homes, but instead about bringing the nursing homes to them? In this episode, host Avis Favaro explores Nursing Home Without Walls, an innovative Canadian program that is helping older adults remain independent, happy and…
Europe's Progress on Women's Health
In this episode of The Fifth Wave, Avis Favaro looks at how Europe is pushing women's health policy forward, and what Canada can learn from it. Since 1957, gender equality has been part of EU law, but almost seven decades later, true equality still hasn't been achieved anywhere, including in healt…
Breaking the Bias: Science That Finally Includes Women
In this episode of The Fifth Wave, Avis Favaro asks a hard question: what happens when women aren't counted? Only 7% of Canadian health research funding specifically targets women, a number that hasn't moved in 15 years, even though women make up 51% of the population. Through conversations with D…
Operating in the Dark: How Connecting Care Saves Lives
Did you know that 99% of Canadian doctors surveyed reported that disconnected health systems affect their ability to provide care? And almost half report having seen a patient who experienced harm — like a missed diagnosis or worsening disease — as a result.
Canada’s health information still live…
The Hidden Injury: Brain Trauma, Menopause, and the Fight to Protect Women's Minds
In this episode of The Fifth Wave, Avis Favaro explores why women's brains are different, and looks for answers to why nearly two-thirds of people living with Alzheimer's are women. Dr. Jenny Rabin of Sunnybrook Research Institute explains how menopause and declining estradiol may be a critical tu…
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