Upstream Medicine features interviews with physicians who are identifying and addressing the upstream conditions that lead to good health and long lives, thus avoiding more complex, painful, and expensive downstream medical problems later on. By transforming how we imagine the practice of medicine, this book will help us build a healthier society.

Andrew Bresnahan is an anthropologist and resident physician in the Northern Family Medicine Program based in Labrador, Canada. Mahli Brindamour is a general pediatrician working in Saskatoon with a special interest in refugee health and Northern health. Christopher Charles is a resident physician in anesthesiology in Toronto. Ryan Meili is a family physician in inner-city Saskatoon, founder of Upstream, and author of A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy.