Francesca Grosso is responsible for developing and executing strategy, public affairs, and communications to assist clients achieve legislative, regulatory and policy change. She has given strategic advice on health care issues to the federal and provincial governments.

For over 25 years, Grosso has been a thought leader and health care strategist serving as executive director of health care at the Institute for International Research where she created accredited health system leadership conferences; director of policy to an Ontario minister of health, vice president of health care at Environics Research Group, and principal of Grosso McCarthy.

Her work includes numerous studies of key health issues including a review of legislation of private health clinics, coauthored with Tom Archibald and a legislative and policy review for the Patient Safety Institute on quality assurance programs across Canada with Dr. Ross Baker from the University of Toronto.

Grosso was executive lead in the establishment of the Health Council of Canada and a transition team member in the establishment of both the Canadian Partnership against Cancer and the Mental Health Commission under Senator Michael Kirby. All agencies of the federal government.

Along with numerous policy papers, Francesca co-authored a Canadian bestseller with Michael Decter, Navigating Canada’s Health Care, A User Guide to the Canadian Health Care System published by Penguin and The History of Sunnybrook Hospital Batlle to Greatness published by Dundurn Press.

In 2016, Francesca was appointed co-chair of the Ontario PC Party’s health policy advisory committee. She presided over the development of the health policy platform for the 2018 provincial election.

Grosso was a member of the Osprey Writers’ Group with notable Canadians who wrote columns for syndication in national Canadian newspapers. Over the years, she has contributed many opinion editorials on health care to the Toronto Star, National Post and Globe and Mail.

Her volunteer work has included Vice Chair of the board of Walrus Magazine, former chair of Patients Canada, a not-for-profit charity that brings the patient voice to public policy, and a policy reviewer for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research innovations projects. She is a caregiver and patient navigator.

Currently Francesca is on the board of Health Sciences North, an academic teaching hospital in Sudbury Ontario and is the chair of its Quality Committee.

Grosso is a regular commentator on health issues for radio, television and print media.