A Rhodes scholar, Stan Rands worked as a senior civil servant in the Psychiatric Services Branch of the Department of Public Health in Saskatchewan for over a decade before becoming the first executive director of the Community Health Service (Sask) Association months after the Doctors' Strike of 1962. For the next decade, he recruited new doctors who were sympathetic to the ideals of the community clinics and he struggled in favour of a physician payment system that would encourage better care for patients. In his later years, he was a university professor and community clinic board member as well as social justice activist. Stan Rands died in 1985.
Gregory P. Marchildon currently holds an Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design with the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Prior to this, he served as a Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic History, and professor in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina.
Catherine Leviten-Reid is an assistant professor in the Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University, where she teaches in the MBA in Community Economic Development program. She does research on community enterprises that deliver health and social care. Catherine has a PhD in Human Ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan, from 2008 to 2009, and served as a director of the Saskatoon Community Clinic from 2008 to 2010.
