Tracey Bailey

Background

About Tracey Bailey

Tracey M. Bailey, KC has over 30 years experience in providing legal, legislative and policy advice on a wide range of issues in health law. She is a recognized expert in Life Sciences & Health in the Canadian L'Expert Directory. She began in private practice at the firm now known as Dentons LLP and worked on both litigation and opinion work largely related to the health sector. She subsequently worked at the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta in an academic position and as Executive Director of the Health Law Institute. In that position, she oversaw and conducted a wide range of legal and law reform projects working locally, provincially, nationally and internationally on a broad range of issues in health law. She was an editor of a peer-reviewed publication, taught extensively in the health professional faculties and the law faculty, published on a wide range of topics, and worked for governments and non-governmental organizations on a variety of projects. She also conducted media interviews, organized national health law conferences and provided outreach education for the public and others. In early 2013, she began practicing law with Alberta Justice and Solicitor General’s health law team as the assistant director of the team. She was promoted in 2014 to Director of the health law team and as Corporate Counsel for Alberta Health, serving on that department’s executive team. She was subsequently appointed General Counsel, Health Law and acted as a senior legal advisor for government, providing advice on numerous complex files to senior officials and public servants. She was the lead lawyer on many such files, with a focus on opinion work and legislation. Areas of advice covered numerous issues and included health system governance, the provision of health services, the regulation of health professionals, public health, mental health and the handling of health information. In addition to her practice, Tracey continues to teach, publish and support other initiatives in the health law area. She is an honourary executive member of the Canadian Bar Association’s national health law section and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. She recently taught on the regulation of health professionals in the LLM program for Osgoode Hall Law School’s PD Program. She has given over 400 invited lectures. She is the senior editor of and a contributor to Public Health Law and Policy in Canada, the first Canadian text on public health and the law, and recently published the 4th edition.