Patient advocate · Writer · Speaker · Communications partner
Emily works with health care organizations, researchers and educators to translate lived experience into more inclusive communication, meaningful co-design and practical systems change.
Selected organizations
CAMHUniversity of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM)Healthcare Excellence CanadaUHNOctober 20, 2026 · Together in purple
Two Canadian landmarks. One shared call for change. Join us for International Mastocytosis and MCAS Awareness Day—and raise your voice for better care.
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Forthcoming · A book by Emily Foucault
A journey through trauma, healing, and the power of reinvention.
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Just launched · Inclusive communication
CAMH’s Clear and Inclusive Writing Guidelines are here. Co-created with more than 70 contributors, with Emily as patient partner and co-lead writer.
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About
Emily's experience navigating complex chronic illness changed how she thinks about communication. In health care, language shapes trust, access, outcomes and how people experience care.
Today, she combines lived experience with more than 15 years in communications and strategy, contributing patient insight to health care education, research, digital health and engagement.
Selected work & impact
A selection of work across inclusive communication, digital literacy, patient partnership and health care education.
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Inclusive health communication
Co-wrote a co-produced resource shaped with more than 70 contributors across CAMH.
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Digital literacy program
Course developer at CAMH for the Canadian adaptation of a digital literacy program for people living with serious mental illness, originally developed through Harvard-affiliated digital psychiatry work.
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Transparent communication
Contributing lived-experience insight to an international movement for transparent communication and patient access to clinical notes, including testimonial and education work at CAMH.
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Health-system contribution
Bringing practical patient insight to health care education, engagement and digital health initiatives with system partners.
Areas of work
Writing & research
Emily writes about the language of care, chronic illness, patient partnership and the systems that influence whose knowledge counts.
Speaking
Emily speaks with health care teams, researchers, educators and public audiences about lived experience, inclusive communication and meaningful patient partnership.
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