North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

The North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO) is a new collaborative partnership of interested researchers, research organizations, governments, and health organizations promoting evidence-informed health system policy decision-making. Due to the high degree of health system decentralization in the United States and Canada, the NAO is committed to focusing considerable attention to state and provincial health systems and to creating a foundation for more systematic health system and policy comparisons among substates.

The NAO was officially launched on 6 February 2017 in Toronto.