Primary Focus with Dr. Tara Kiran
Episodes
In Durham: Community Wellness and Black Health
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Tara Kiran travels to Durham, Ontario, to visit the Durham Community Health Centre, where CEO Francis Garwe leads a team rethinki...
In Vancouver: A Clinic Accountable to the Community It Serves
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For many newcomers to Canada, accessing healthcare isn’t just about finding a doctor. It’s about navigating an unfamiliar system, in a new languag...
How Nova Scotia Is Expanding Access to Primary Care with Dr. Nicole Boutilier
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tara speaks with Dr. Nicole Boutilier, Executive Vice President of Medicine and Clinical Operations at the Nova Scotia Health Authori...
In Costa Rica: integrating public health and primary care
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Part Two of our Costa Rica series, Dr. Tara Kiran takes you inside an EBAIS (Equipos Básicos de Atención Integral de Salud) clinic on the Nicoya ...
In Costa Rica: How a middle-income country built a world-class primary care system
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the first in a two-part series on the primary care system in Costa Rica. Dr.Tara Kiran sits down with Dr. Madeline Pesec, an internal ...
In Quebec: Improving timely access one clinic at a time
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we take you to Saint-Hyacinthe to see how a team in Quebec is transforming timely access to primary care. Quebec has more interprofes...
In Renfrew County: A hybrid solution to the rural family doctor shortage
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Primary Focus, Dr. Tara Kiran travels to Renfrew County, Ontario, where an innovative team is tackling the family doctor shortage w...
How One Calgary Clinic Gets Team-Based Care Right
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This season, we’re diving into innovative primary care practices across Canada—starting in Alberta, where one family practice is making timely, hi...
Why don’t we have enough family doctors? with Dr. Ruth Lavergne
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Canada faces a family doctor shortage, Tara calls up her friend Dr. Ruth Lavergne, a primary care researcher at Dalhousie University, to ask how we...
A historic win for primary care in Ontario with Peter MacLeod
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, host Dr. Tara Kiran reflects on the passage of Ontario’s new Primary Care Act—the first legislation of its kind in Canada...
In the Netherlands: who’s accountable for access?
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you design a system that delivers timely primary care — not by chance, but by design? In this final episode in the Netherlands, Tara visits a...
In the Netherlands: after-hours care that works
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emergency departments in Canada are overcrowded — but what if they didn’t have to be? In Part Three of her audio documentary series from the Nethe...
In the Netherlands: a day in a GP practice (Part 2)
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are Dutch GPs called “huisarts” — house doctors? In Part Two of her visit to a Nijmegen clinic, Dr. Tara Kiran talks with Dr. Suzanne Ligtha...
In the Netherlands: a day in a GP practice (Part 1)
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is it that 99% of people in the Netherlands have access to primary care? How can Dutch doctors look after large numbers of patients while still pr...
Why Primary Care Should Work Like Public Schools with Dr. Rita McCracken
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if getting a family doctor was as simple as enrolling your child in your local public school? Dr. Rita McCracken joins Dr. Tara Kiran to explore ...
Culturally Inclusive Care for Indigenous People with Dr. Mandy Buss
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Dr. Tara Kiran as she learns about how the Northern Connections Medical Centre in Winnipeg is revolutionizing primary care for Indigenous communi...
Why millions of Canadians are still waiting for a doctor with Dr. Danielle Martin
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Dr. Tara Kiran as she explores just how bad the primary care crisis is in Canada and the history of exactly how we got here. To do that, she phon...
Introducing “Primary Focus” with Dr. Tara Kiran
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do 6.5 million people in Canada lack a family doctor or access to primary care—and what can be done about it?In this podcast, Dr. Tara Kiran unp...