Katherine Boothe is an associate professor in McMaster University’s Department of Political Science and a member of CHEPA. She holds a PhD and MA from the University of British Columbia and a BA (Hons.) from the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on comparative public policy in advanced industrial democracies with a focus on health policy, particularly the development and reform of public pharmaceutical insurance programs.

Research Interests: Canadian and comparative politics; public policy in advanced industrial democracies; health and social policy; federalism.

Katherine Boothe is an associate professor in McMaster University’s Department of Political Science and a member of CHEPA. She holds a PhD and MA from the University of British Columbia and a BA (Hons.) from the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on comparative public policy in advanced industrial democracies with a focus on health policy, particularly the development and reform of public pharmaceutical insurance programs.

Research Interests: Canadian and comparative politics; public policy in advanced industrial democracies; health and social policy; federalism.

Katherine Cuff is a full professor in the Department of Economics at McMaster University, where she has held a Tier II Canadian Research Chair in Public Economic Theory. She was one of the inaugural recipients of the McMaster University Scholar title. She obtained her PhD from Queen’s University and her MA from York University. Her research in public economics includes work on optimal taxation, redistribution and fiscal federalism. She has also worked on issues in health care financing using economic experimental methods. Katherine is currently the managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and has also served as both an editor of FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis and an associate editor of Canadian Public Policy.

Research Interests: economic aspects of taxation and redistributive policies; health care financing; issues of federalism

Katherine Cuff is a full professor in the Department of Economics at McMaster University, where she has held a Tier II Canadian Research Chair in Public Economic Theory. She was one of the inaugural recipients of the McMaster University Scholar title. She obtained her PhD from Queen’s University and her MA from York University. Her research in public economics includes work on optimal taxation, redistribution and fiscal federalism. She has also worked on issues in health care financing using economic experimental methods. Katherine is currently the managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and has also served as both an editor of FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis and an associate editor of Canadian Public Policy.

Research Interests: economic aspects of taxation and redistributive policies; health care financing; issues of federalism

Michel Grignon is a professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Health, Aging and Society and the graduate chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Health Reform Observer – Observatoire des Réformes de Santé and is also associate scientist of Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Èconomie de la Santé in Paris, France. He was the director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) from July 2011 to April 2017.

He was born in France and obtained his master’s equivalent at the National School for Statistics and Economics and his PhD at Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, both located in Paris. Grignon has extensive experience at an international level in research projects and activities in the areas of health economics, health-related policies, health insurance and aging. Working with colleagues at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, he is exploring how to assess health and provide healthcare among older people, comparing Canada’s aging population with countries like Japan, whose population is even older.

Research Interests: equity in health care utilization and financing; population aging; affordability and access to health and long-term care insurance and health care.

Michel Grignon is a professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Health, Aging and Society and the graduate chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Health Reform Observer – Observatoire des Réformes de Santé and is also associate scientist of Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Èconomie de la Santé in Paris, France. He was the director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) from July 2011 to April 2017.

He was born in France and obtained his master’s equivalent at the National School for Statistics and Economics and his PhD at Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, both located in Paris. Grignon has extensive experience at an international level in research projects and activities in the areas of health economics, health-related policies, health insurance and aging. Working with colleagues at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, he is exploring how to assess health and provide healthcare among older people, comparing Canada’s aging population with countries like Japan, whose population is even older.

Research Interests: equity in health care utilization and financing; population aging; affordability and access to health and long-term care insurance and health care.

Emmanuel Guindon is the inaugural Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA)/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity, an associate professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) and an associate member of the Department of Economics at McMaster University. Prior to joining McMaster University, Emmanuel was on Faculty at Université de Montréal and a staff economist at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Emmanuel is the recipient of a Rising Star Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, and a Career Development Award in Prevention from the Canadian Cancer Society. Emmanuel holds a PhD in health research methodology from McMaster, an MA in economics from the University of Victoria and a BA in economics from McGill University.

Research Interests: health equity; economics of health behaviours; health services research; empirical health economics and policy.

Emmanuel Guindon is the inaugural Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA)/Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Chair in Health Equity, an associate professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) and an associate member of the Department of Economics at McMaster University. Prior to joining McMaster University, Emmanuel was on Faculty at Université de Montréal and a staff economist at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Emmanuel is the recipient of a Rising Star Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, and a Career Development Award in Prevention from the Canadian Cancer Society. Emmanuel holds a PhD in health research methodology from McMaster, an MA in economics from the University of Victoria and a BA in economics from McGill University.

Research Interests: health equity; economics of health behaviours; health services research; empirical health economics and policy.

Research Interests: health care financing, particularly public and private roles in health care financing; equity in health care; resource allocation and funding in the health sector; normative economic analysis in the health sector; experimental methods in health economics.

Research Interests: health care financing, particularly public and private roles in health care financing; equity in health care; resource allocation and funding in the health sector; normative economic analysis in the health sector; experimental methods in health economics.

Asif Khowaja is an assistant professor in health economics at Brock University in St. Catharines, with expertise in advanced health economics and simulation modelling. He was a recipient of a CIHR Vanier doctoral award (2015) and the Warren George Povey Award in Public Health (2016). Before joining Brock, he worked as a CIHR Health System Impact postdoctoral fellow at the British Columbia Patient Safety and Quality Council in Vancouver, BC. He holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation.

Research Interests: application of health economics modelling and mixed-methods research to inform policy decisions about resource allocation in healthcare.

Asif Khowaja is an assistant professor in health economics at Brock University in St. Catharines, with expertise in advanced health economics and simulation modelling. He was a recipient of a CIHR Vanier doctoral award (2015) and the Warren George Povey Award in Public Health (2016). Before joining Brock, he worked as a CIHR Health System Impact postdoctoral fellow at the British Columbia Patient Safety and Quality Council in Vancouver, BC. He holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation.

Research Interests: application of health economics modelling and mixed-methods research to inform policy decisions about resource allocation in healthcare.

Boris Kralj holds both a doctorate and master’s in economics from York University. He has more than 30 years of experience working in the government sector, non-profit sector, academia and consulting. He is a specialist in health economics and medical (physician) economics, in particular. He is a noted expert on physician compensation models and physician pay equity or “relativity”. For over two decades he was employed at the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) where he provided leadership to the Economics, Research & Analytics functions and the Technology function, as well as serving as the Chief Information/Chief Analytics Officer. Kralj provided guidance and oversight to the economic research, policy and evaluation work associated primarily with the negotiation and implementation of physician fee-for-service (FFS) and non-FFS agreements and the physician fees/tariff setting processes.

Kralj served as a member of Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee (OHTAC) from January 2010 to June 2014.  He has authored and published a broad variety of research reports. His publications relate to physician payment reform, gender pay gap in medicine, primary care, medical services utilization, physician human resources, workers’ compensation, physician billing, oncology practices, prescribing patterns and walk-in clinics.

Research Interests: health economics, and medical (physician) economics – physician compensation models and physician pay equity or “relativity.”

Boris Kralj holds both a doctorate and master’s in economics from York University. He has more than 30 years of experience working in the government sector, non-profit sector, academia and consulting. He is a specialist in health economics and medical (physician) economics, in particular. He is a noted expert on physician compensation models and physician pay equity or “relativity”. For over two decades he was employed at the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) where he provided leadership to the Economics, Research & Analytics functions and the Technology function, as well as serving as the Chief Information/Chief Analytics Officer. Kralj provided guidance and oversight to the economic research, policy and evaluation work associated primarily with the negotiation and implementation of physician fee-for-service (FFS) and non-FFS agreements and the physician fees/tariff setting processes.

Kralj served as a member of Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee (OHTAC) from January 2010 to June 2014.  He has authored and published a broad variety of research reports. His publications relate to physician payment reform, gender pay gap in medicine, primary care, medical services utilization, physician human resources, workers’ compensation, physician billing, oncology practices, prescribing patterns and walk-in clinics.

Research Interests: health economics, and medical (physician) economics – physician compensation models and physician pay equity or “relativity.”

Christopher Longo has over 30 years’ experience in clinical research, economic evaluation and access strategies for pharmaceuticals. He has published clinical, economic and policy research in a number of therapeutic areas including: cancer, diabetes, sepsis and mental health disorders. He teaches courses in health economics and population health at McMaster University, as well as a 5-week module on health economics in public health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto (2009-2016). Longo’s research has examined the economics of cancer and diabetes, economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, global pharmaceutical pricing strategies, the public/private mix in the financing of healthcare and the evaluation of factors influencing patients’ financial burden for health care services. Although still interested in these issues, and how they relate to the healthcare system and its end users, he has refocused his research agenda. His current research examines the costs and economic evaluation of interventions/programs throughout the cancer journey, with the intent of informing policy decision making.

Research Interests: costs, economic evaluation of cancer interventions/programs; healthcare management.

Christopher Longo has over 30 years’ experience in clinical research, economic evaluation and access strategies for pharmaceuticals. He has published clinical, economic and policy research in a number of therapeutic areas including: cancer, diabetes, sepsis and mental health disorders. He teaches courses in health economics and population health at McMaster University, as well as a 5-week module on health economics in public health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto (2009-2016). Longo’s research has examined the economics of cancer and diabetes, economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, global pharmaceutical pricing strategies, the public/private mix in the financing of healthcare and the evaluation of factors influencing patients’ financial burden for health care services. Although still interested in these issues, and how they relate to the healthcare system and its end users, he has refocused his research agenda. His current research examines the costs and economic evaluation of interventions/programs throughout the cancer journey, with the intent of informing policy decision making.

Research Interests: costs, economic evaluation of cancer interventions/programs; healthcare management.

Hsien Seow, PhD (Johns Hopkins), BSc (Yale), is the Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health System Innovation at McMaster University and director of the ICES-McMaster site. Previously, he held a CIHR New Investigator award and the Cancer Care Ontario Chair in Health Services Research.

Hsien Seow, PhD (Johns Hopkins), BSc (Yale), is the Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health System Innovation at McMaster University and director of the ICES-McMaster site. Previously, he held a CIHR New Investigator award and the Cancer Care Ontario Chair in Health Services Research.

Research Interests: economic and empirical aspects of health human resources and industrial relations; quantitative program evaluation.

Research Interests: economic and empirical aspects of health human resources and industrial relations; quantitative program evaluation.

Jonathan Zhang is an empirical economist with interests in health economics, public finance and applied microeconomics. His research centres around evaluating the impacts of health policy, the role of supply and demand-side factors in influencing substance abuse and mental health and the determinants of healthcare utilization. He was on leave for the 2020-21 academic year as a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University. He obtained his PhD in economics from Stanford University in 2020 and his BSc in statistics and economics from the University of British Columbia.

Research Interests: empirical economist with interests in health economics, public finance and applied microeconomics.

Jonathan Zhang is an empirical economist with interests in health economics, public finance and applied microeconomics. His research centres around evaluating the impacts of health policy, the role of supply and demand-side factors in influencing substance abuse and mental health and the determinants of healthcare utilization. He was on leave for the 2020-21 academic year as a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University. He obtained his PhD in economics from Stanford University in 2020 and his BSc in statistics and economics from the University of British Columbia.

Research Interests: empirical economist with interests in health economics, public finance and applied microeconomics.