Mohit Arora

My early years were spent in hospital. Not as an outpatient, though. It's where I marked birthdays, where I learned what these systems actually do when someone is completely dependent on them.

What those years made clear: the healthcare system doesn't treat everyone the same. But that's not an accident. It's the outcome of whose knowledge gets centred, whose experience gets counted, and who gets to be in the room when decisions are made.

My path to these rooms was unconventional. Years spent working across technology, corporate, entertainment, and consumer goods, in industries where the same institutional dynamics play out, but where the cost of getting it wrong is far less expensive than a human life. What I carried from inside the healthcare system eventually converged with the professional skills I built along the way. The structural failures I kept encountering have a way of showing up under different names, and they surface, consistently, inside the tools and systems being designed to transform healthcare.

My work in patient advocacy, public speaking, and board and advisory roles at the UHN's Toronto Western Family Health Team, Liver Canada, the Equity in Health Systems Lab, and the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario affords me a seat at the tables where decisions are being made that impact the health of Canadians.

Canada's healthcare system has the capacity to be something better than what it is. Making that case, with evidence and with clarity, from a vantage point the system was not designed to include, is what I am here to do.

You can follow what I'm tracking in Canadian healthcare at HealthcareinCanada.ca. If you'd like to chat, please reach out.