An independent health researcher for the Parkland Institute, Colleen Fuller is also the President and co-founder of PHARMAWATCH, North America's first and only direct-from-consumer adverse drug reaction reporting program. The author of Caring for Profit, How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada's Health Care System (New Star Books), she has spoken extensively on federal regulation of both health services and prescription medicines. Fuller is also on the Board of Vancouver's Reach Community Health and a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.