2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow

Amy Lang is the Executive Director of Patient Oriented Research at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada’s federal health research funding agency. In this role, Amy provides leadership and expertise for Canada’s Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) and other patient-oriented research initiatives across CIHR.

Amy’s career has spanned all three levels of government, with a focus on strengthening engagement of people and communities in the development of public policies, services and research. Amy has a BA and MA in Sociology from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.