Beth Campbell Duke

Fellow

Beth Campbell Duke knows what it looks like when a healthcare system works exactly as designed, and still fails the people inside it. As a Certified Caregiving Consultant, patient advocate, and family care partner based in Victoria, BC, she has spent years translating the gap between policy intention and lived reality into tools, frameworks, and plain-spoken truth.

Her path here was anything but direct. A former biotechnology professional turned high school science teacher, Beth arrived at patient advocacy the way most advocates do: through the door marked personal crisis. When her husband survived end-stage lung failure and a double lung transplant, then a serious motor vehicle accident, she didn't just navigate the healthcare system, she mapped it. Her background — bench science, classroom chaos, and caregiving in the trenches — gives her a rare ability to speak across the table from clinicians, administrators, and exhausted family members at 11pm.

Her work spans three interconnected platforms: NavigatingHealthcare.ca, where she coaches patients and care partners through complex health systems; CaregiversCount.ca, a currently incubating grassroots advocacy initiative reframing caregiving as essential infrastructure; and an upcoming Architecture of Abandonment Substack, where she's planning to write about the impact of industrial healthcare on patients and families.

Beth's writing and speaking philosophy is simple: no story without data, no data without a story. Her work has been described as humorous and compelling, which she considers a higher compliment than most credentials she holds.