In this podcast, Dr. Andreas Laupacis, editor-in-chief for CMAJ discusses the clinical practice guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people and people with lived homelessness experience. He discusses with Dawnmarie Harriott, who shares her story of homelessness and how she got involved with the guideline group. He also chats with Dr. Kevin Pottie and Dr. Gary Bloch, who are two of the authors of the guideline.Dawnmarie Harriott is a Voices from the Street Coordinator with the organization Working for Change in Toronto. Dr. Gary Bloch is a family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and Inner City Health Associates in Toronto.Dr. Kevin Pottie is a family physician and clinical investigator at C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre and at Bruyère Research Institute and professor of family medicine at University of Ottawa. The guideline article they co-authored is published in CMAJ: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.190777The linked commentary by Prof. Jesse Thistle and Dr. Janet Smylie is published in CMAJ:www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.200199Podcast transcript: https://www.cmaj.ca/transcript-190777-----------------------------------Subscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.

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Guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed populations