Public Policy Consulting

Many public and private organizations require policy evolution, revision, and reform to help transform sound ideas into favourable, sustainable outcomes in the short-and long-term. Developing and adopting successful policy requires extensive academic and industry research, a reliable evidence base, accurate interpretation and analysis, and collaboration between stakeholders, guided by skilled and experienced policy experts who value what’s important to your mission, values, and key decision-makers.

The policy consultants at Shnier Mackenzie Law leverage our broad academic, research, and legal expertise and our substantial university-level teaching and engagement experience to provide our clients with comprehensive research and analyses. We work closely with your business, association, or public office to develop clear, practical policy products for both internal and public consumption that helps your organization exceed its potential.

Book a free, no-obligation 30-minute call with a policy consultant at Shnier Mackenzie Law to get started on customized solutions that put your needs and goals first.

Policy Consulting

Shnier Mackenzie Law policy consultants specialize in working with health and related fields, government, and politics, bringing the total weight of our expertise to deliver outcomes that make a favourable and sustainable impact in the lives of our clients’ communities, while allowing for continued evolution and growth. Our work is based on sound and reliable data, evidence, laws, regulations, and informed insights and analyses to ensure goal-focused product accuracy.

We collaborate closely with your team to clearly understand your organization’s objectives, engaging with your team at every step of the design, drafting, and implementation of our solutions. Even when you’re under pressure to solve complex policy issues quickly, we’ll deliver reliable, informed products within the required timeframe.

Shnier Mackenzie Law provides policy consulting services to:

Policy advisory services

When you need an opinion on, drafting of, or reform of your current policy, our team will provide data-based and evidence-informed advice and strategy development. We draw from relevant law, regulation, policy, and academic literature to allow us to give you the most educated and informed opinion possible.

Program Development and Evaluation

We’ll help you develop practical and sustainable programs and initiatives, together with corresponding program evaluation methodologies and tools that continually track progress, measure impact, and identify areas of improvement for ongoing optimization. Our work is informed by our academic experience, academic literature, and current knowledge translation trends for the most reliable and relevant program content possible.

Book a free, no-obligation 30-minute discovery call with a policy consultant at Shnier Mackenzie Law.

Meet Dr. Adrienne Shnier, B.A. (Hons.), M.A., Ph.D., J.D

Adrienne leads our Policy Consulting department. With over a decade of health policy, academia, research, consulting, and legal experience, Adrienne provides our clients with unique evidence-based, informed, experience-based perspectives and fresh thinking.

Adrienne is Health Law Faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in the Professional LLM in Health Law, an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, School of Health Policy & Management, and School of Global Health in the Faculty of Health at York University.

Her research focus is pharmaceutical policy, regulation, education and promotion, health policy, governance, financial conflict of interest relationships, fraud, and patient safety. She is a Research Fellow alumna of the Pharmaceutical Policy Research Collaboration (PPRC).

Adrienne is the author and co-author of peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in health, policy, and law journals. She has presented her research at conferences and medical schools across Canada and internationally, including at the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, McMaster University, and Georgetown University.

About Josh Eisen, B.A. (Hons.), M.A., J.D.

Josh practices in Business & Corporate Law, Franchise Law, and Health Law, advising entrepreneurs and business owners at every stage of in their business’ life cycle. Josh’s Master’s degree in negotiation and conflict resolution informs his analytic approach to governance and policy in service of our clients, their missions, and goals.

Policy Review

As applicable, we’ll provide a detailed review, audit, and analysis of your existing policy and related guidance documents for gaps, weaknesses, and errors and omissions. Our insights will help you draw conclusions about the impact and effectiveness of your current policies, upon which we can identify recommendations for improvement.

Policy Drafting

We provide data-based and evidence-informed drafting of organizational policy and guidance materials that promote your business and institutional goals. Our policy products are informed by relevant law, related policy, and academic literature to ensure complete accuracy.

Policy research and writing

Shnier Mackenzie’s expert policy research team will conduct extensive legal, policy, and academic research to inform and develop clear, compelling writing and communications products for both internal and external consumption. We’ll also help you devise an innovative implementation strategy that will support your business goals and growth objectives.

Regulatory compliance

Healthcare organizations, government offices and agencies, and political offices and campaigns are heavily regulated to ensure that their practices are implemented efficiently, ethically, and safely. Our team works closely with regulators to help drive policy thinking that keeps your organization in compliance as regulations change.